A post on the Chicago magazine site dives into research showing how Chicago has segregated by income since the 1970s.
Whet Moser shares details about the research of Stanford’s Sean F. Reardon and Cornell’s Kendra Bischoff, two sociologists studying income segregation.
Moser pulls graphs from the research to focus on demographic changes of Chicagoland neighborhoods from the 1970s forward. Moser notes a couple key trends: "One is how brutal the 1970s were….The decline of middle-class neighborhoods and the growth of low-income neighborhoods is strongest during that decade." The other is "the increase in affluent and generally high-income neighborhoods, and how it’s timed."
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