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    Thousands Of African-Americans Are Leaving Chicago Each Year. Why?

    Chicago's black population is on track to shrink to 665,000 by 2030 — down from a peak of about 1.2 million. Some have called the phenomenon a "reverse Great Migration."
    Feb 28, 2019 3 minutes
    Kathryn Welch, who works at the Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation in Chicago, stands at the same spot where she witnessed gunfire in the lot across the street. "It was a summer day and I was walking to Walgreens and I heard these pops," she says. Welch moved from the city to South Holland, Ill., a Chicago suburb. (Danielle Scruggs for Here & Now)

    Thousands of black residents are moving away from Chicago every year in what some have called a “reverse Great Migration.”

    The mass exodus comes as Chicago is set to have a black woman as its mayor for the first time in history. Attorney Lori Lightfoot will face Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff election on April 2.

    Chicago’s black population is on track to shrink to 665,000 by 2030 — down from a peak of about 1.2 million, according to the Urban Institute. One factor in

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