Thanks Deet, but I don?t need a Harvard study to tell me about my city. You?re very hung up on Chicago being a segregated city. While you?re busy thumbing through your references, I?ll tell you how it really is. And I?m sorry Kenosha Chris, Humboldt Park? Scary? My word, have you seen real estate prices there recently? It?s sketchy in some areas, yes, but overall it?s a great area and it?s diversity is what is actually attracting people there. Yes, the poor will eventually have to move out. That is an old story, and it happens everywhere in the world.
I completely forgot about this thread but for some reason thought about it today. It's clear that you are well read on the subject of urban planning, and I'm sure that your textbooks tell you quite a bit about the history of Chicago and its segregation. However, textbooks are textbooks, real life is real life. Chicago is racially segregated, but hardly more than any other town, suburb, or what have you. Here, I?ll even quote one of your fine literary sources, ?Given population increases by several different minority groups, the growth of multi-ethnic neighborhoods is notable, particularly in the suburbs, where the number of such Census tracts increased by 250 percent (from 38 to 96) in just ten years.?
You?re also trying to tell me that there are 1610 Dominicans in Chicago, and therefore there is a higher percentage of Dominicans here than in NYC? Are you insane? Washington Heights? Ever hear of it? Believe me, I wish there were more Dominicans here, I would eat Dominican food almost every night if I could. And the music would much more interesting. We could use some bachata to break up the monotony.
This quote, however, takes the cake: ?The dynamic of all inner cities is that the more expensive land is dominated by the lower-income folks.? Gosh, and this whole time I thought higher income people lived on more expensive land. What a fool I was.
Deet, we are segregated here, but my neighborhood is dominated by mixed races, religions, incomes, hetero, homosexual, homeless, mansions, dogs, cats, rats, and everything else. Some neighborhoods are like this, and some aren?t, it depends on where you go. We're all Chicagoans, and more than any other large city I've ever been in, we try to take care of our own.
Again, does anyone know of one true Dominican restaurant in Chicago? I would greatly appreciate any leads.
