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
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