Exercise #6: Segregation in Chicago The neighborhood I am focusing on for this assignment is Belmont Cragin, which is community number 19 and is 8 miles NW of the loop. Belmont Cragin in the 1922 became an industrialized area, where many plants started to open, which created many jobs. In the 1910 Belmont Cragin race composition was made up of white people. It wasn’t until the 1970s when you first started to see the hispanic community move in along with asians, and black people. By the 1990s the hispanic population jumped to 17,000, and the asian community jumped to 1,000. While the white population was starting to decline slowly, since the 1930 where the white population was at 60,000 by the 1990s the white population was at 37,000. By 2000
