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As Latino population surges, José Miguel Acosta-Córdova takes stock

November 22, 2019 7:18 amNovember 26, 2019 11:18 am

Chicago’s sharpest demographer can’t stop won’t stop. José Miguel Acosta-Córdova talks so fast and knows so much that a reporter calling him for comment literally cannot keep up. Acosta-Córdova was the author of the Latino Neighborhoods Report: Issues and Prospects...

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November 20, 2019 6:26 pmNovember 20, 2019 6:36 pm

There are 803,000 Latinos in Chicago; 2,099,428 Latinos in the Chicagoland area. The 2.2 million Hispanics in Illinois are 4% of all Hispanics in the United States. The state’s population is 17% Hispanic. In 2017, Chicago’s Latino population surpassed its Black population for the...

Closing of Hoy a Blow to Latino Pols

November 20, 2019 5:01 pmNovember 22, 2019 8:08 am

When Tribune Publishing announced Tuesday that it would be shutting down both the print and online publication of Hoy, it couldn’t have come as much of a surprise. As the Tribune itself reported, the company had been slowly sounding the...