Two studies released March 2 by the Chicago Urban League and researchers at American University in Washington, D.C., show that Chicago is still one of the most segregated cities in the country, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
In fact, segregation is so deeply ingrained that even those neighborhoods that achieved racial diversity are moving toward resegregation, according to sociologists at American University who analyzed race and housing patterns in 10,000 neighborhoods in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and New York.
The Urban League’s study is titled “The Impact of Racial Residential Segregation on Residence, Housing and Transportation”; it is at TheChicagoUrbanLeague.org. The American University study is titled “The Fragmented Evolution of Racial Integration Since the Civil Rights Movement”; it is at www.sociologicalscience.com/download/vol-3/march/SocSci_v3_135to166.pdf.
The Sun-Times article is at chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-racial-segregation-studies/.