A hat tip to The Welles Park Bulldog for calling our attention to this slickly-produced video about Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood – no relation to an earlier Andersonville.
Much is made in the video of Andersonville’s diversity- but I don’t recall seeing an African-American face in the video.
You can see another video take on Andersonville in this YoChicago post from several years ago.
Joe,
get your eyes checked. At 40 seconds and 3:07 you can see black folks. I haven’t even watched the whole thing yet.
Andersonville is fairly diverse at least in terms of the people who frequent the retail,restaurants and nightlife there.
It’s unfortunate that the retail districts further south on Clark and Broadway in Lincoln Park and LakeView lack Andersonville’s vibrancy. You’d think with the density and relative wealth they could at least compete.
Whatever the business folks have done in Andersonville needs to be bottled and sold to other hoods.
IrishPirate,
I should have been more specific – none with a speaking part.
And, Andersonville’s primary census tract is 77% white, 9% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 3% Other groups and 0% Black. I guess that’s diversity.
Joe, do you have a link for the census? I’m having a hard time with their website. I’ve been hearing that A-ville is doing far better than Clark Street south of Diversey lately – haven’t been there in a long while – lots of empty storefronts supposedly.
Sheridan B,
I used the American Community Survey data via the NY Times interactive map:
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer
Thanks Joe! Interesting to see how much denser the tracts to the east are. My token black friend in A-Ville lives just across the street from the all white tract.