{"id":331,"date":"2026-02-07T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/?p=331"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:07:42","slug":"chicagos-black-population-continues-sharp-decline-experts-say-change-is-still-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s Black Population Continues Sharp Decline \u2014 Experts Say Change Is Still Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago is facing one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in its history. New data from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Census Bureau shows that Chicago\u2019s non\u2011Hispanic Black population has fallen to around 700,000, down from 1.2 million in 1980 \u2014 a loss of nearly half a million people in under 50 years.1<\/p>\n<p>The reasons are deep-rooted:<\/p>\n<p>Deindustrialization stripped away stable jobs<\/p>\n<p>Disinvestment and housing discrimination pushed families out<\/p>\n<p>Vacant homes and abandoned buildings continue to rise in Black neighborhoods<\/p>\n<p>But experts insist there\u2019s a path forward. Chicago owns roughly 13,000 vacant lots, and two\u2011thirds are in Black communities. If developed, these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago is facing one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in its history. New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that Chicago\u2019s non\u2011Hispanic Black population has fallen to around 700,000, down from 1.2 million in 1980 \u2014 a loss of nearly half a million people in under 50 years.1 The reasons are deep-rooted: Deindustrialization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntienews.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}