Sep 5, 2018 ... The outgoing mayor's legacy will be defined by austerity, privatization, ... the  claim that Chicago is experiencing “the highest employment since 1950. ... With  his announcement, Emanuel's legacy is now sealed, in large part ...
Aug 21, 2013 ... Beverly and Hyde Park have been racially integrated for years now: about ...  Unemployment today is especially high for blacks in big cities, and ... In 1950, the  community had been 87 percent white; by 1960, it was 91 percent black. ....  Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide ...
The history of African Americans in Chicago dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du  Sable's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable is the city's founder. Fugitive  slaves and freedmen established the city's first black community in the 1840s. By  the late 19th century, the first black person had been elected to office. .... " Chicago was the most accessible northern city for African Americans in ...
Aug 29, 2017 ... Most of these new arrivals to Chicago found themselves living in a ... to the  wartime demand for cheap labor now found themselves without jobs. .... to the  experience of the Great Migration with nostalgia for the rural past; they ...
Jun 19, 2008 ... Chicago's retail sales tax is the highest in the nation at 10.25 percent. ... By any  traditional performance standards Chicago has failed. Like many old, big  industrial cities, Chicago peaked in the 1950 Census with a population of  3,620,962. ... only towns in America with an employee head tax on employment.
Chicago is experiencing right now the highest employment since 1950.