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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
That's almost certainly not true today.
Chicago's MSA was 50.2% NHW in 2020.
But with the way NHW people have been fleeing Chicagoland by the hundreds of thousands over the past couple decades, there's no way that Chicagoland hasn't fallen under the 50% mark on that score at some point over the past 3 years, becoming only the 3rd major MSA in the north to become majority non-white, after DC and NYC.
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The counties that are included in the CSA probably give the NHW percentage a bit of a boost. Either way, if they no longer constitute a majority, it's likely still 47% or more given that there's also black flight. They're still the plurality by a "comfortable" margin... about double the Latino percentage.
The ratio of Latino to black is also in alignment with the nation writ large, Latino's now being the second-largest racial minority. I think many Americans have this perception of Chicago still being a mostly white/black city (which I think also mirrors foreigners' perceptions), however as you've pointed out before, it's one of the nation's major population centers for Mexicans/Chicanos. The only thing about Chicagoland demographics that really deviates from the national profile, besides the enormous Polish population, is the relative lack of English ancestry. That's very unusual for a metro that is about 50% white.