As Black Exodus Continues in Chicago, Latino Caucus Seeks Stronger Voice – Wall Street Journal

Teresa Córdova, director of the Great Cities Institute at UIC, said that when industrial jobs began drying up in the late 1970s and 1980s, Black residents started leaving for the suburbs or other places such as Atlanta or Texas, where job prospects were better, cutting their numbers by about a third between 1980 and 2015. Meanwhile, Latinos were coming to the city in large numbers and often taking low-paying service industry jobs with hopes of climbing the ladder in the U.S.