{"id":84964,"date":"2020-02-06T13:13:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=84964"},"modified":"2021-01-20T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T19:21:59","slug":"chicago-youth-unemployment-hits-african-americans-hardest-driving-population-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicago-youth-unemployment-hits-african-americans-hardest-driving-population-declines\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago youth unemployment hits African Americans hardest, driving population declines"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alison Saldanha<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

More African Americans are out of school and out of work than among any other racial group in Chicago, according to a new report<\/a> released recently by the Great Cities Institute of the University of Illinois at Chicago.<\/p>\n

Professor Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute, linked this disparity to the city\u2019s declining<\/a> population trend, especially among Black residents. As of 2017, Chicago\u2019s population has\u00a0 dropped by 904,500 to 2.7 million, or 25% since 1950. Some Black majority neighborhoods have lost more than 50% of their population in less than four decades.<\/p>\n

Between 2010 and 2017 alone, Illinois\u2019 lost 99,682 residents \u2014 in absolute numbers and that\u2019s more than any other U.S. state, according to an earlier Great Cities Institute report<\/a> from July.<\/p>\n

Cook County, home to Chicago, registered the highest decline.\u00a0 Here, 18,673 residents have moved out since 2010.<\/p>\n

If the trend continues, demographers predict<\/a> Houston could overtake Chicago\u2019s place as the third largest city in the country and Chicago, once the second largest U.S. city behind New York, would drop to fourth place.<\/p>\n\n\n