Note: the yellow areas are 90 percent or more African Amercican. The grey areas, 90 percent or more white. The blue areas, 90% or more Latino.Red areas are 50-70 percent Asian.

Data is from the 2000 census.

1. Humboldt Park is a neighborhood undergoing gentrification where the Puerto Rican community is fighting to hold on to their homes. Puerto Rican gang violence has always been extremely high here, and class and racial hostility is now running hot. .

2. Lawndale is south of Humboldt Park and west of the University of Illinois-Chicago.It was settled by African Americans later than the southside Black Belt. It was the scene of Chicago’s 1968 riots and the west branch of the Black ghetto. Gentrification is pushing the black community west.

3. Englewood is the heart of the expanded Black Belt on the south side, and has one of the city’s highest homicide rates. It is also likely an area of high concentration of ex-offenders. It has been the center of Chicago's expanded Black Belt

4. Roseland is a de-industrialized African American neighborhood which today is one of the major receiving zones of displaced CHA residents. It is becoming the new center for the southern movement of the African American populace.