Out of the Loop: Vernacular Architecture Forum Chicago by

Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Published: 2015-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

1700 block of South Newberry Avenue, 2013. (Euan Hague)

Pilsen’s Changing Demographics

The struggles over gentrification in Pilsen are not solely architectural. Census tract data show that although 43.1 percent of Pilsen residents are foreign-born, the eastern parts of Pilsen are becoming wealthier and less Hispanic, and the Hispanic population is moving west. The median monthly rent in Pilsen in 2011 was $608 (compared to Chicago’s $789), but this was unevenly distributed across the neighborhood.4 It is evident that major changes in Pilsen are spreading from east to west. The population between 16th Street, Halsted Street, Cermak Road, and Carpenter Street—approximately 20 blocks comprising the eastern census tracts 3103 and 3104—is wealthier, less Hispanic, less foreign-born, and paying higher rents than the population in more western census tracts is. For example, an analysis of 1990 and 2000 census data by John Betancur5 identified that in 2000, the median household income in tract 3103 was $40,644. The American Community Survey indicates that in 2010, the median household income in 3103 was $55,313, a 36 percent increase. The 2010 census showed that the Hispanic population in 3103 was 66 percent, but just two years later in 2012, it was 59 percent, according to the American Community Survey. Further west, in census tract 3105, the Hispanic population remains relatively stable. In 2000, Betancur mapped the Hispanic population of tract 3105 at around 94 percent; in 2012 it was 95 percent. Yet, as the map shows, incomes in the eastern census tracts are notably higher than those in the western parts of Pilsen. What is apparent is the declining Hispanic population and rising incomes and rents are in eastern census tracts, areas immediately south of the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. These are also the areas where a majority of the new construction of condominiums and single-family homes has taken place in the past 15 years.

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