Interactive Map Shows Chicago Population Decline

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 1, 2011 5:40PM

Image Capture via chicagotribune.com

We know that Chicago's population declined by 200,000 people over the past decade. The Tribune has a nifty interactive map showing the population shifts in the greater Chicago area between 2000 and 2010. You can use it to search the shifts down to your own neighborhood.

Pictured above is the population shift for our part of Bridgeport (AKA "Chicagoist HQ") from that time frame. We'll take credit for only 3 percent of the nearly 8 percent decline in population. But that's all