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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
This depends on what you are defining as the SW side. TUP and I are discussing primarily Pilsen and Little Village. Pilsen saw a 15% population drop from 2000 to 2010 most of which was attributed to the loss of family population.
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I mean, 2000-2010 change numbers are kind of irrelevant to this when we have 5 more years of population data per neighborhood from 2011 to 2015. It also depends on what you are comparing to as I think Little Village when you compare against one, its losing population versus another its about the same/slightly gaining. What I mean when i say "one" is comparing against the 2010 Census or 2010 ACS. You are only supposed to compare ACS against the ACS, but it seems almost everyone on the planet doesn't understand this.
As far as the growth engine comment goes, a lot of the more granular data for Chicago you cannot see but there were a number of industries that went up. I was really hoping to see "Information" - but the data is not public right now for that. The "Government" industry for the area decreased by almost $1B but on the other hand, the "Finance and Insurance" industry increased by about $1.6B which beat out the growth for NYC, LA, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, etc. So far the only MSA I see that beat out Chicago on this category was San Francisco MSA. Educational services, health care, etc also went up by almost $1B. Professional and Business Services went up by almost $750M which was greater than LA and Houston, both of whom decreased in this category.