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The outer 'city employee neighborhoods' are also shedding a lot of whites, presumably being replaced by Latinos (this is clear in Garfield Ridge and Clearing, less clear in Beverly and the far NW neighborhoods near O'Hare).
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It may be a racial change but not a political one. These are still conservative city employees with ugly social attitudes, but now they have names like Lopez and Flores in addition to O'Keefe and Frankowicz. Ah, the melting pot!
It's always been interesting to me that, with such a huge city, the city workers are *still* so heavily concentrated in these corner neighborhoods even regardless of race, crime/safety, etc. Why do Streets and San workers not live in Avondale, Hermosa or McKinley Park?
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The neighborhoods from the South Loop to Hyde Park are diversifying substantially, with many tracts in those neighborhoods having no clear racial majority.
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I think a lot of it is Prairie Shores and Lake Meadows (maybe South Commons too?). Those enormous complexes have emptied out of Black middle class residents and filled up with a mix of whites and Asians. But because those areas are sort of isolated from the rest of Bronzeville by a physical and psychic barrier, the rest of Bronzeville still feels as black as ever.