The Chicago Reporter From Concentrated to Diffuse

From Concentrated to Diffuse

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

In 2000 about 94 percent of voters at the 22 developments analyzed by The Chicago Reporter were clustered in eight wards in November 2000. Public housing voters accounted for nearly 23 percent of all voters in the 3rd Ward, nearly 17 percent in the 2nd Ward and about 9 percent in both the 4th and 9th wards.

But by September 2007, those who still remained on the voting rolls were spread out among all 50 wards in the city and accounted for no more than 5.4 percent of the voters in any ward.

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

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