Chicago’s Next Mayor to Inherit Shrinking Population
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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s successor will govern a smaller city with fewer black residents and ringed by suburbs that are outpacing its growth, 2010 census data shows.
The third-most-populous U.S. city, home to 2.7 million, lost 6.9 percent of its residents between 2000 and 2010, according to Illinois data released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The loss means fewer federal dollars for Chicago as the next mayor confronts budget and city-worker pension deficits.