West Englewood (community area 67)

CTL-E-0932 · Neighborhood · unspecified

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West Englewood went from 48.3% African-American in 1970 to 97.5% in 1980 — among the fastest racial successions in Chicago.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-016; source research type(s): neighborhood. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Chicago Urban League, CULtivate Part 1 (2019)

Record CTL-E-0932 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: PLACE-001.
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