By John Dodge, Apr. 3, 2014, CBS News Chicago
The graphic that you are about to see is sobering, perhaps depressing, and you can’t take your eyes off it.
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| Source: CBS News, Chicago |
We have the exhaustive
work of Daniel Kay Hertz, a masters student at the University Of
Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, to thank for that.
At the risk of sounding like an old carnival barker, step right
up and watch the middle class of Chicago vanish before your eyes.
However, this is no side-show.
It shows the demise of the foundation of an American city.
Watch as the grey squares, which illustrate the middle class
that dominated the most of the city’s neighborhoods in 1970s, quickly vanish over 40 years.
The poor, represented by the orange and red colors, explode
across the map.
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