The Rich Get Rich, And The Poor Get...

Over the past 10 years, all Chicagoans have either gotten richer or they haven't - depending on which of the city's two daily papers you're reading.

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August 22, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

Both papers reported on the release of census figures on per capita income in Chicago from 1989 to 1999. The Chicago Sun-Times front page reported: "Boom Shared by All Races in Chicago." The Chicago Tribune said: "Rich '90s Failed to Lift All." According to the Tribune: "The economic boom of the 1990s bypassed poor minority communities in the city, as many predominantly black neighborhoods on the South and West Sides remained mired in poverty as deeply entrenched as a decade earlier, according to 2000 census data released Tuesday." The Sun-Times relied for its optimism on a new report from the Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. According to the Sun-Times, that report concluded that: "Significant income gaps between racial groups remain, but racial groups in metropolitan Chicago were moving in the right direction economically." The Sun-Times account is here:http://www.suntimes.com/output/census/cst-nws-censide20.html

Thanks to Dateline APA

FULL STORY: Rich '90s failed to lift all

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 in The Chicago Tribune

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