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Originally Posted by eschaton
Considering Chicago was predicted to have shrunk, but actually grew, it must have been off somewhere.
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i don't know where the population #s on the map in the first post of this thread came from. if you total them all up, you get a net gain of 19,137 people, yet the last CB estimate in 2019 had the city losing ~20K, so something isn't adding up there.
perhaps the author, ed zotti, was using some other source for his population figures?
in any event, the city did end up gaining ~50K residents last decade, and the patterns of where, and the degree to which, the growth/loss occurred generally line up with what was outlined in that map. that was really my only point.
the vast majority of chicago actually faired pretty well last decade on the population front (stable to growing), with a still strongly booming central area, but a still hollowing-out far southside.
in fact, if you remove the two far southside regions on the map below, the rest of the city of chicago actually grew by 85,891 people (+3.9%), which would be very respectable city growth for an old rustbelter, especially one as large as chicago.
but the far southside of the city is still adrift in some pretty troubled waters.
area ------------------------ 2010 ------ 2020 ----- growth
inner southeast side ---- 226,241 --- 239,282 --- +13,041 (+5.8%)
inner southwest side --- 355,247 --- 359,941 --- +4,694 (+1.3%)
far southeast side ------ 224,793 --- 208,941 ---
-15,852 (-7.1%)
far southwest side ------ 244,147 --- 224,898 ---
-19,249 (-7.9%)
TOTAL ------------- 1,050,428 --- 1,033,062 --- -17,366 (-1.7%)