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May 23, 2017 11:26 PM Subscribe
Annual family day of obligation is this weekend and I've already decided I'm not engaging in discussions about national politics. However, I would like to be better prepared for the anti-Chicago comments I hear from people in my god-forsaken small downstate hometown.
Specifically, the charges that this formerly "nice town" (aka "racist, conservative, backwater") has been ruined by all the troublemakers from Chicago, e.g., increase in violent crime/gangs, deterioration of local school system. Last year people told me with total sincerity that there were billboards in "Chicago ghettos" encouraging people to move to Hometown and that the CHA actively relocated residents to the local housing project. I pointed out the obvious holes in this theory, i.e., the CHA has no authority to place residents here and no reason to advertise Hometown, but the belief the influx of former Chicago residents is a major local issue persists.
Frankly, in my wildest dreams I cannot imagine people willingly leaving Chicago to live in Hometown, but saying that to Hometown residents would be rude. So, I would like to find official numbers regarding in-state migration patterns, but it's been 20+ years since I last worked with census data and I don't know where to start. E.g., there are multiple tables about county-to-county migration, but I haven't found info regarding how to use them.
Specifically, the charges that this formerly "nice town" (aka "racist, conservative, backwater") has been ruined by all the troublemakers from Chicago, e.g., increase in violent crime/gangs, deterioration of local school system. Last year people told me with total sincerity that there were billboards in "Chicago ghettos" encouraging people to move to Hometown and that the CHA actively relocated residents to the local housing project. I pointed out the obvious holes in this theory, i.e., the CHA has no authority to place residents here and no reason to advertise Hometown, but the belief the influx of former Chicago residents is a major local issue persists.
Frankly, in my wildest dreams I cannot imagine people willingly leaving Chicago to live in Hometown, but saying that to Hometown residents would be rude. So, I would like to find official numbers regarding in-state migration patterns, but it's been 20+ years since I last worked with census data and I don't know where to start. E.g., there are multiple tables about county-to-county migration, but I haven't found info regarding how to use them.
Digging into the data would be more revealing, but you can do some initial exploration with this flows mapper tool.
FWIW, I also heard this about my small downstate town 20 years ago.
posted by brentajones at 6:24 AM on May 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
FWIW, I also heard this about my small downstate town 20 years ago.
posted by brentajones at 6:24 AM on May 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
According to the 'inflow' spreadsheet on this page (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2014/demo/geographic-mobility/county-to-county-migration-2010-2014.html), 296 +/- 175 people moved from Cook County to Vermilion County each year from 2010-2014.
posted by crazy with stars at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2017
posted by crazy with stars at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2017
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posted by mareli at 6:23 AM on May 24, 2017