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Tag Archives: Chicago
The resilience of commercial streets in walkable urban neighborhoods
It’s been suggested that the Coronavirus Pandemic will turn out to be a disaster for stores on commercial streets in walkable neighborhoods. Most of these stores have had to close or at least to limit their operations during a lockdown … Continue reading
Another book “superstore” closes
I was a little shocked to discover in the course of a walk further south than I’d been for two months that the Barnes & Noble at … Continue reading
Change in population by “race” and Hispanic/Latinx status, Chicago area, 2010-2014/2018
The Census Bureau released the 2014/2018 American Community Survey (ACS) tract-level data last December, and I’m afraid I’ve been a little slow to download and analyze any of the numbers. One reason is that I didn’t think that there would … Continue reading
Pedestrian life in Chicago during the Coronavirus Pandemic
There have been hundreds of newspaper stories describing the emptiness of American cities during the Coronavirus Pandemic. This view doesn’t jibe with what I’ve observed at all. I’ll gladly admit that my experience during six weeks of “lockdown” (ever since March … Continue reading
Was Chicago still building “too much” in 2018?
I’ve put up three previous posts in which I pointed out that, given Chicago’s continued population losses, there was an enormous amount of residential building in the Chicago urban area, or at least an enormous amount of residential-building permit-filing. This … Continue reading
Using OpenStreetMap to map urban pedestrian facilities
Most of the maps on this site were created at least in part with GIS data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). OSM (for those who do not know) consists of GIS data—that is geographic data in a format usable by computer mapping … Continue reading
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Change in population by “race” and Hispanic status, Chicago area, 2010-2013/2017
The Census Bureau released the 2013/2017 American Community Survey (ACS) tract-level data last month. I’ve used these data to map tract-level changes in population by “race” and Hispanic status between 2010 and 2013/2017 for the Chicago area. These maps are … Continue reading
Was Chicago still building “too much” in 2017?
I put up posts in 2016 and 2017 in which I pointed out that, given Chicago’s continued population losses, there was an enormous amount of building in the Chicago urban area, or at least an enormous amount of building-permit filing. … Continue reading
Chicago hospital thinks it’s in Schaumburg*
Thorek Hospital is a 118-bed hospital on Chicago’s North Side. It is most definitely not a major research institution. It ranks as “below average” in U.S. News and World Report ‘s evaluations of U.S. hospitals. Many (although not all) of its … Continue reading
Change in population by “race” and Hispanic status, Chicago area, 2010-2012/2016
The Census Bureau released the 2012/2016 American Community Survey (ACS) tract-level data last month. I’ve used these data to map tract-level ethnic changes between 2010 and 2012/2016 for the Chicago area. These maps are comparable to the 2000-2010, 1990-2000, and … Continue reading