Typical Chicago Attitude?

[detla1]

Chicago went to heavy gentrication in the late 1980s after the first female Mayor Jane Byne spent 3 nights at a drug emporium called Cabrini-Green Apts. It spread up faster than the South Bronx, NYC, New York. Daley finished the job by sweeping the po'folks and gangbangers out of Downtown Chicago developing areas causing its popultion to increase up to 2.8 Million that's something that Detroit should have done. But Mayor Coleman Young's Black Detroit Dream prevented more outside [[suburban)regionalization from coming to Downtown Detroit. It's population continue to drop. Now Mayor Dave Bing has to clean the Young and Kilpatrick's mess until the end. Then we will see Detroit real rennaisance by 2020 to 2050.

Good post. I am amazed though by neighborhoods like Palmer Woods/Sherwood Forest, and even areas surrounding that. That is supposedly one of the wealthiest marjority black neighborhoods in the country.

Maybe I do have some "white liberal guilt" but I do judge a city/metro area by how well African Americans have it. Today probably Atlanta leads in terms of black wealth.

Chicago does have some areas like Beverly-Morgan Park where that have significant upper middle class black populations in beautiful leafy neighborhoods from the 1st half of the 20th century [[with Tudor style homes, etc) Oak Park-River Forest is just immediately outside the city. Hyde Park-Kenwood is more urban and has beautiful apartment buildings too, along with the university, and Museum of science and industry. Some of my favorite parts of Chicago.

[rb336]

Chicago's massive urban acres and its population grew very fast thanks to Mercantilism and midwestern farm trades. Detroit should do the same, but making stoves to cars to Motown Music is all we do.

You could essentially write chicago out of 20th century history and the world would barely notice. Oh, maybe there would have been fewer, less famous gangsters, a little less bacon. The same can't be said of Detroit, NYC or LA. Other than national capitals, those three cities defined much of the century. The arrogance of Chicagoans stems from a deep inferiority complex to New York.