Employment in downtown Chicago drops for residents from majority-black communities – Chicago Sun-Times

The new analysis, produced by the Metropolitan Planning Council, found that the Loop, the Near North Side and the Near West Side added 65,000 new jobs between the start of 2010 and the end of 2015, with the number of jobs in those three areas totaling 715,000 as of 2015. Yet the number of those jobs held by residents who live in majority-black communities on the South and West sides dropped. During the five-year period, the number of employees working downtown who were living in those communities shrunk by nearly 1,500. Residents of these communities made up only 10.6 percent of the workforce downtown at the end of 2015, the analysis also showed.