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Originally Posted by goat314
then upper middle class, wealthy gentrification on the North Shore.
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Just an FYI, within the context of Chicago, "north shore" exclusively refers to the well-to-do suburbs north of the city along the lake, starting in Evanston and going north to Lake Bluff, with an expanded geography these days that also usually includes well-off inland burbs just west of the above like Glenview, Northbrook, and Deerfield.
"North shore" is never used to refer to north lakefront neighborhoods like Streeterville, Old Town, Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, etc., or anywhere else within city limits.
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Originally Posted by goat314
Basically, your typical American legacy city model.
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The main difference being that Chicago has a rather large area of within-city wealth, which is at least better than having pretty much all of the upper/upper-middle class decamp to the burbs.
For as much as I lament the evaporation of the middle class from Chicago over the past half century, if the choice is between HIGHLY bifurcated wealth/poverty in the city and precious little wealth in the city at all, the former situation at least helps prop up the city's tax base.