CHICAGO | General Discussions

[Mr Downtown]

Toronto (like Vancouver) is still seeing strong immigration flows, and some brain drain from the Hamilton-Niagara industrial corridor.

In Chicago, Latino immigration for several decades blinded us to the loss of African-Americans. That flow of migrants slowed to a trickle during the Great Recession.

When we look at downtown construction cranes and Brown Line crowding and shiny residential highrises and people like us, it keeps us from noticing the lights quietly going out, one after another after another, in traditional small factories and warehouses all through the South Side and older suburbs.