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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ The diversity of the northwest side hoods seems more fluid and natural.
Whereas the stuff you have going on in these SW side areas like Bridgeport/McKinley Park, etc just seem like a few big groups moved in and staked out their claim, but there really is no mixing.
You’ve got the Mexicans, black folks, some old school ethnic whites, and then Chinatown spillover. The diversity on the north side seems to be more broad and “fluid” in a sense.
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Well I think that the areas up north like West Ridge are of that type of newer immigration of certain countries, who are in smaller numbers. So ultimately it becomes a lot more mixed. I've seen some other neighborhoods on NW side like Portage Park get a lot more mixed in regards to this lately by the data.
Will be interesting to dive deeper into it. Just like everything else, sometimes there's more to just 1 number. Some neighborhoods might have decreased in terms of foreign born population a little bit, but they might have decreased a lot with 1 or 2 groups, and gained a bunch with like 10 other groups. One could easily argue it's actually more diverse in a case like that even if it had a little drop in overall foreign born population (i.e. more countries represented with sizable populations).