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Originally Posted by the urban politician
For Chicago, the fact that it's so heavily Hispanic is also not well known outside of urbanist circles. People still view it as a Polish/Italian sausage and Blues kind of city, not really the city of tamales. And its large Puerto Rican population goes unrecognized.
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very true. across the board, chicago is less black and more latino than most outsiders realize. latinos now outnumber blacks in the city.
and that dovetails into another common chicago misconception: the west side is also nothing but a bombed-out black ghetto.
the truth (as of 2015): the west side is home to 482,761 people, 205,025 of whom are black, or
42.5%, roughly the same percentage as the city of milwaukee as a whole.
that said, now i want some tamales for lunch, but i brown-bagged it today (leftover pasta fagioli).