Last Monday, United States marked the Martin Luther King Day - a day meant to give Americans opportunity to reflect on the iconic civil rights leader. Which is always an… interesting holiday to mark here in Chicago, since that  was the city where King’s efforts to end housing segregation completely and utterly failed. Not that many people outside ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, University of Chicago grad student Daniel Hertz (who blogs about segregation and Chicago community issues at City Notes), wrote an editorial for Crain’s Chicago Business where he used demographic data to look at where middle-class African-Americans live. The first map looks at the total number of middle-class African- ( Read more... )

With the 2010 census results slowly trickling in, we are finally getting some sense of how the population changed in the Windy City over the past ten years. It's something I've been looking forward since... well, since before the census started, really. And so I has very happy to see the Tribune publishing a graphic about the the population changes ( Read more... )