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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis
Huh? I was talking about the areas going from Orange to Yellow in Little Village.
Where are area's of the city going from Green to Red?
It seems like the south lakefront is gentrifying. The high crime areas are going from working class to poverty, and the rich are getting richer in Lincoln park and the central core.
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I think middle-class or otherwise upwardly-mobile Mexicans are shifting to the suburbs and this map reflects that... Increasingly it's just fixed-income seniors and single-parent households, since the rest of the Mexican community can afford to get bigger places in the suburbs.
Why stay in a cramped 4-flat in LV when you can buy a bungalow in Berwyn, Lyons or Melrose Park? I even know Mexican families that are buying big new tract homes in Plainfield, with actual cornfields visible from the backyard. And recent immigrants aren't really settling in Pilsen or LV either, they are also heading for the suburbs.