The West Side lies west of the Loop between Grand Avenue on the north and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on the south. About 600,000 Chicagoans live on the West Side, 50 percent of whom are black, and 29 percent are of Hispanic descent. Almost the entire remainder of the population is
Living in poverty today in the Chicago region may be more difficult in some respects than it was in 1980. Rising costs of basic necessities such as housing, health care, food, and energy have further eroded the purchasing power of people in poverty as the poverty line has failed to keep pace with inflation.
On September 24, 2009, a standing-room only room of approximately 250 individuals attended Who's Got Next?: A Call for Change in the Nonprofit Sector, which was part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference.
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