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Originally Posted by eschaton
Several cities just across state lines from a larger city seem cursed. Not only East St. Louis. Also see Gary and Camden.
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what's a little interesting about NWI is that Gary isn't the first city directly along the IL border, touching chicago, it's actually hammond, IN.
and while hammond certainly isn't a posterchild for american urban success, it has faired much better overall than Gary.
gary 1960: 178,320 (peak)
gary 2020: 69,093
change:
-109,227 (-61.3%)
hammond 1960: 111,698 (peak)
hammond 2020: 77,879
change:
-33,819 (-30.3%)
Much of Hammond's better outcome can be explained by Latinos spilling over the border from the SE side of chicago and backfilling in a lot of the white flight. Gary has not had such luck.
hammond is now plurality latino at 40.2% (with NH-whites in 2nd at 30.4%), while gary is super majority black at 79.1% with a latino share of only 7.6%.
of the major interior river cities where the other side of the river is in an entirely different state (STL, KC, memphis, Louisville, cincy), cincy seems like it fared the best with covington/newport.