Fascinating development on South Side lakefront – Crain’s*

What was really eye-catching in census numbers are gains on South Side neighborhoods along or close to the lakefront. All the way from the Loop down to Woodlawn, their population grew a lot, in some cases more than 10 percent. Who are these people? According to Chicago demographer Ed Zotti, who first tipped me several years ago that interesting things were starting to happen on the South Shore, it’s mostly affluent, middle-class Black people with college degrees, many of them working in the same kind of high-end service jobs downtown that power North Side neighborhoods.