videos for presentation

A Day in the Life of Black Men
http://sjnnchicago.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-black-men-microaggressions-a-subtle-form-of-racism/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-colleges-microaggressions-20151112-story.html

Chicago Travel Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2naCXlFUsY

The Great Chicago Fire (1871)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ9u-qJzmbk

Haymarket Riot (1886)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUNEqKRd4SA

When Chicago's Black Neighborhood Fought back (1940-1970)
http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/22/when-chicago%E2%80%99s-black-neighborhoods-fought-back/

School to Prison Pipeline (Restore Justice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DTPSe9Wk7w

Education Reform (1990s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8e4Zj4omo

Chicago Public Schools budget cut (2014)
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/cps-teachers-parents-protest-1400-layoffs-$200m-in-cuts/823307/

2000-2010 Immigration

From 1990 to 2000, Chicago's population has grown by 537,000.  In 2000 the Chicago's population was 2.89 million people, with 1.4 million immigrants. Of those immigrants, Mexican, Polish and Indian immigrants make up 56% of the immigrant population. The African American population at this time however was leaving Chicago at a rapid pace, this is opening up places were more immigrants can settle. Also the increase of population moving to the suburbs opens up more inexpensive housing which attracted more and more immigrants. The 2000 census found more immigrants in the suburban portions of metropolitan Chicago than in the city of Chicago itself.

2000-2010

Unemployment rate: 6.4% (February 2005) 
The cost of living in Chicago is higher than the national average: 2004 (3rd Quarter) ACCRA Cost of Living Index: 130.4 (U.S. average = 100.0)

Immigrants from Mexico now account for nearly half the city's foreign-born population, for example, yet Chicago also remains one of the foremost U.S. gateways for workers and families from Eastern Europe. 

 Annual household incomes for blacks trail those for whites by more than $20,000.

And families with children face particular challenges—more than a third live below or near the poverty line, and more than one in five Chicago children live in a family with no adult workers

1990's

*Early 1990's, gangs ruled the projects.
*1992, 943 murders, and there was less than 3 million residents in the city.
*Decline in the overall crime in the 1990's.

2000-2010

• many neighborhoods are changing in the Chicago area, especially Lincoln Park and Lake View

http://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/November-2013/Here-Are-Five-Ways-Chicago-Neighborhoods-Have-Changed-in-the-2000s/

• Socioeconomics of families in Chicago (April 2008)

http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/35654/Soc_Econ_Trends_Latino_Population_Growth.pdf/23db9627-584e-452a-9e02-75ebe419dc9a

• Chicago's community public health assessment (2012-2016)

http://www.cityofchicago.org/dam/city/depts/cdph/policy_planning/CDPHChicagoPlan20122016FINAL.pdf

1950s-1980s

-Chicago's ghettos in the 1960s were notorious for their shootings, robberies, rapes, fires, joblessness, single-parent families, dreadful schools and high dropout rates, rampant alcoholism and heroin addiction, abandoned buildings and vacant lots.

-1950s: In the course of little more than a decade, at least 9,000 families are displaced as the Chicago area’s major expressways are built.

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1950's-1980's

By 1960 Chicago's black population reached over 800,000, almost a quarter of the total-up from 14 percent just 10 years earlier. In black neighborhoods schools were overcrowded, with many on double shifts. Class sizes were smaller in white schools than in black ones, even though more new buildings had been erected for black students.  The Catholic school enrollments grew by nearly 30 percent in the city and nearly tripled in the suburbs. Most of these students were white students whose parents did not want their children in schools with the growing population of African Americans and other races. Under the leadership of George Cardinal Mundelein and Samuel Cardinal Stritch, parishes scrambled to build schools to meet the demand, particularly for high schools. By the early fifties, nearly 200,000 students attended Catholic schools, about 70 percent of them in the city, most of the students being white. The loss of white students from the Chicago Public Schools can be explained partially by “white flight” from the city to suburban communities; but it also reflected a shift to private and parochial school education for many whites. In 1963 school superintendent Benjamin Willis rejected calls for desegregation, and the portable classrooms added to black schools were derisively labeled “Willis Wagons.” In 1963 massive demonstrations were staged by students and parents to protest Willis's policies. Public outcries intensified in the wake of commissioned reports recommending dramatic steps to redress educational inequality. Threats by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to withhold federal funds until a desegregation plan was developed were thwarted by Mayor Richard J. Daley's intervention. Then Willis's term ended in 1966, James Redmond, his successor, attempted to develop integration plans that would send black students to predominantly white schools. Hostile demonstrations greeted such efforts on the city's Northwest and Southwest Sides. Redmond and other school leaders found themselves hampered by board members and local politicians reluctant to anger whites opposed to integration.  Showing serious strains on the racial situation in Chicago during the height of the Civil rights movement.