10/4/12
Our local media have been taking pride in a recent US Census report (PDF) showing Chicago as the metro area with the largest numeric...
4/7/11
The Chicago Reader’s Ben Joravsky looked at Rob Paral’s new Census mashups and the results of the spring elections to see how Chicago’s 50...
3/25/11
We’ve based a number of recent posts on an interactive New York Times map of a variety of demographic data at the census tract...
3/13/11
A recent Tribune article calls attention to the recently-released 2009 American Housing Survey (AHS) data for the Chicago Metropolitan Area. The AHS data doesn’t...
2/22/11
Word is there’s some sort of election going on today, so it’s fitting that the latest mashup of Census data I’ve seen plots out...
2/17/11
Aaron Renn of The Urbanophile digs into the new Census numbers at NewGeography.com: The non-Hispanic White Only population of the city actually declined by...
2/15/11
Chicago’s population fell by more than 200,000 to 2,695,598 people over the course of the last decade, due in large part to an outflux...
1/10/11
Mount Greenwood has never been Chicago’s best model of diversity, but the 2009 American Community Survey data do show signs of change amongst its...
1/6/11
The “New Chinatown” appellation never sat right with me — yes, the area around Argyle Street in Uptown is a distinctly Asian corridor, but...
1/5/11
Over the past decade, Albany Park’s white, black, and Hispanic populations all grew by modest amounts, yet the community area’s total population dropped by...
1/4/11
The Hispanic population of Humboldt Park fell by 4% in the past decade, dropping from 31,607 to 30,337, according to new Census data. But...
1/3/11
If you start tracking which community areas Chicago’s white, black, and Hispanic populations migrated in and out of between 2000 and 2009, you’ll notice...