I live in Chicagoland and work in a Hospital in Chicago city limits. A lot of the blame falls on the majority race in Chicago, the whites, esp lakefront liberal single women. The Daley’s had no problem with landslides for a half of a century.
Together, Richard J. Daley and his son Richard M. Daley served a total of 43 years as mayor of Chicago. Richard J. Daley served 21 years (1955–1976), and Richard M. Daley served 22 years (1989–2011), marking the longest combined tenure of a single family in the city’s history.
Blacks are in 3rd when it comes to city limit population and falls off big in the collar counties.
But back to the city limits.
Chicago is the third-largest U.S. city with a population of approximately 2.7 million, characterized by a diverse, highly segregated demographic spread. The population is roughly split into thirds among White (approx 36%), Hispanic (approx. 29%) Black (approx. 28%),residents, with a 6.9% Asian population. Hispanics passed blacks decades ago. The median age is 35.9, with a median household income of $81,000
Key Demographic Data
Population: Approx. 2.7 million (2024), with a metropolitan “Chicagoland” area of 9.6 million.
Chicago has always been highly segregated and the black population is actually falling, lots blacks moving back south. Unlike a lot of posters here that do not know the city, its no where near as blacks here in percentage as some wish it to be. The problem is the current past few mayors and no bail and the DA’s that do not punish crime. Most crime stays in the hoods and is gang on gang and few care about those. But once they congregate in nice areas they spoil it for millions. New tough leadership is needed. That said there is no way a GOP could be mayor, the last good Mayor I hate to say it was Rahm Emanual.
Chicago really is not even In the top % of 65 other cities over 100K and most of them are in the south save Detroit
want to see a load of shitty cities...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Black_populations
The New Great Migration is the demographic change from 1970 to the present, which is a reversal of the previous 60-year trend of black migration within the United States.
Since 1970, deindustrialization of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the “New South” with lower costs of living, desire to reunite with family, cultural ties, the perception of lessening discrimination and religious connections have all acted to attract African Americans to the Southern United States in substantial numbers. Between 1965 and 1970 around 287,000 African Americans left the Southern United States, while from 1975 to 1980, it is estimated 109,000 African Americans migrated to the Southern United States, showing the reversal of the original Great Migration.[4] Between 1975 and 1980, several Southern states saw net African American migration gains. In 2014, African American millennials moved in the highest numbers to Texas, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina.
Fort Worth, San Antonio, Columbus, Houston, Jacksonville and Charlotte saw the largest growth in the black population
Appreciate your post.
My view is Illinois has always been one of if not the most politically corrupt states in the union.
And as Chicago goes so does Illinois.
The Daleys to their credit navigated the corruption while keeping certain institutional guard rails in place for the benefit of the city which you in your experience say was also carried on by Immanuel.
The state of the city cannot as you pointed out be entirely blamed on the African-American demographic.
Chicago is a sanctuary city and for whatever reasons most African-Americans have embraced that.
And when one black protests the prejudicial favor given Hispanics they are publicly spanked and put in exile like Teresa Haley of the NCAAP.
If Chicago is breaking down as it appears most large blue cities are, then in my view I have to blame the Democrat wing of the uniparty.
The Daleys represented a Democrat Party that claimed the working class as its base.
As you pointed the whites left in the Democrat Party are not of the traditional working class that kept the party at least left center not what it is today which finds its leadership favoring issues in which its own party members are 70 to 30 against.
Bottom line is that the identity politics of good intentions is a road to hell.