Where Chicago’s White Population Has Grown – Chicago Magazine

“It’s just a continuation of gentrification along the same lines as it was before, since 1990, but that is accelerating now,” John Betancur, a professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois Chicago, said. “The people that live in those central neighborhoods [near downtown] are being displaced either because they cannot afford increases in rent, or because they are homeowners and they cannot afford the increases in property taxes.”