“Unsurprising,” said Chicago Public Health Director Dr. Illinois has confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant, health officials announced Tuesday. How Englewood is trying to keep Black residents,by WBEZ’s Natalie Moore for POLITICO. Today, many Black-owned companies have shuttered, dramatically changing the city's landscape,” by author Lee Bey for POLITICO. The demise of America’s onetime capital of Black wealth:“Chicago was once known for its power marriage of Black business and politics. Aldermen dial down the rhetoric in City Council's remap war: “After weeks of strong words, members of both the Black and Latino caucuses say they'd prefer to do a deal,” by Crain’s Greg Hinz. Now, if one wants to get elected to public office they have to have a balanced approach to representation and have to represent all constituents in some way, form or fashion.” “It’s what Harold Washington preached,” he told your Playbook host. Danny Davis says it’s more important than ever for Chicago’s minority communities to get along. That’s what the remap process is showing. Crime has only exacerbated the problem.Īs populations have shifted, the power structure of the City Council is changing, too. It destabilized neighborhoods, and forced Black residents to leave. The demographic changes started years ago when the Chicago Housing Authority pushed residents out of public housing and into communities that didn’t have resources to help them thrive. We started in Illinois, and the headline says it all: Black people are leaving Chicago en masse, and it’s changing the city’s power politics. With that in mind, POLITICO is examining what the black exodus means for the cities losing Black residents. Chicago isn’t alone in experiencing these demographic dynamics.