Community areas of Chicago

“poorest suburb in America,” the community has taken many steps to strengthen its future. In 1987, the village changed its name to Ford Heights. Ford Heights, formerly East Chicago Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Ford Heights was first settled in the late 1840s. It served as a stopping point on the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves fleeing to freedom. By the early 20th century, the area had developed into an agricultural community of farms operated mostly by Polish

City Demographics and Crime Profile of Chicago AJS 514 October 19, 2015 James L. Smith City Demographics and Crime Profile of Chicago Chicago is a big and beautiful city in the United States, this paper will discuss the cities demographics and analyze a criminal profile. It will include the characterization of the city in terms of social and intellectual context and identify social factors that contribute to crime. A description of beliefs people living there would accept for explaining

further investigate the long-standing issue of residential segregation in Chicago, one must also examine the laws and policies put into practice that both upheld and attempted to dismantle the problem. Although racism exists in our current society in more discreet and covert ways, an analysis of political practices show that past laws did little to hide their discriminatory nature. Agreements made between members of the Chicago Real Estate Board enacted a policy in 1921 that revoked membership from

are committing crimes, violent crime or property crime. Most of the time the crime is not exposed because the people in the community do a good job of covering it up or even working together to prevent the crime from happening. A crime is something that may not be considered illegal but it may very well be shameful or wrong which makes a crime deviant. The Crime in Chicago is considered Deviance because it goes against the social norm and the values and expectations of the city (Macionis). The Crime

time, there has been much empirical support for the theory and extensions have been made to include more reliable measures of social disorganization within a community. This paper will discuss the origins of the theory developed by Shaw and McKay, then move forward to prominent empirical support, social disorganization research on suburban areas and lead up to valid criticism of the theory. Finally, there will be an examination of the policy implications originally posed and a proposal towards a more

Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America Dissection and Critique Exercise Residential segregation is a wide spread topic of discussion throughout cities across the United States. With population in larger cities growing, the separation of groups into neighborhoods is common — placing different standards of living on each section depending on the wealth and race of the inhabitants. In There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods

effects as well. It has been said numerous times that Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. If guns are illegal in the state of Illinois, then why does Chicago have so much gun violence? The answer would probably be that many guns are transported from other states such as; Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa, and often times, these guns end up in the hands of criminals who commit such violent crimes. Another reason why Chicago have so much gun violence is because of lack of job opportunities

The established in 1920, the University of Chicago Department of Sociology engaged in a study of Chicago neighborhoods to discover the relationship between crime rates and the demographics/characteristics of the neighborhoods studied. The research model used, based on that of ecology, attempted to studies the similarity between individuals and their relationships/actions in society (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). Ernest Burgess states that as cities grow/expand they form concentric circles through processes

Home of Michael Jordan, the Blackhawks, and “Da Bears”. Chicago, the Windy City, Chitown, and the Smelly Onion, or notoriously Chiraq. These are just a few names that the city has earned. Built right beside the lake stands great skyscrapers that make you look up and think, “well that is one serious tower.” The city of Chicago is also known for its unique suspended train system called the ‘L,’ which residents take to commute to and from all corners of the city. It is the city of arts, for example

Chicago, a city rich in history, Arts, and Architecture. Although, all this rich and unquenchable immensity, there lies a much darker and glooming area of the city that has been brought to the light within the last eighteen months. The city of Chicago is divided into four quadrants, north, south, east, and west. Out of these four quadrants two stand out the most, the south, and the west. These areas are known to have produced the most violent crimes in the city and within the state. The violence