Chicago's black population is on track to shrink to 665,000 by 2030 — down from a peak of about 1.2 million. Via hereandnow:
. Attorney Lori Lightfoot will face Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff election on April 2.
Ware, 40, grew up in Milwaukee and moved to Chicago in 2002 to pursue a career in marketing. Although she says she loves the city, Ware is selling her townhouse and moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, with her 2-year-old son Kayden and 10-year-old dog Rocco. Ware is getting a much bigger place in North Carolina than she has in Chicago. And she says she'll pay a lot less in taxes by leaving Illinois. But there's another reason Ware decided to leave Chicago: She wants her son to grow up someplace with lots of opportunity.
Chicago has seen a decrease in its overall population since 1950, but the trend has been driven lately by African-Americans, who have seen their population decline by 33 percent in that time, according to Teresa Córdova, director of the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago. Chicago's homicide rate fell for the second year in a row in 2018. But the total number was still more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
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