The Chicago Reporter A Faint Voice Getting Fainter?

A Faint Voice Getting Fainter?

Posted On: December 19, 2007Originally published as part of the January, 2008 Issue

In November 2000, CHA residents in the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens made up nearly 100 percent of the voters in 15 precincts of the 3rd Ward. Voter turnout was typically lower in those precincts than in other 3rd Ward precincts. By September 2007, after both of the public housing developments were demolished, about three out of every four of the voters in those developments were no longer registered voters in Cook County.

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Source: Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago, Cook County Clerk; analyzed by The Chicago Reporter.

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