The City of Chicago:

77 community areas 2015 Population: 2,717,534

Racial and ethnic geography

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Study Area: The part of Chicago where the White population is less than 10%. The Study Area makes up approximately 41% of the city’s population.

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Poverty

The poverty rate in the Study Area is 32% or double that of the remainder of Chicago.

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Crime

The violent crime rate is 350% higher in the study area than in the remainder of Chicago.

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Educational Attainment

Elementary school students in the study area perform on standardized tests at the 38th

percentile vs. the 67th percentile for the remainder of the City.

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82% of the 49 CPS school closures in 2013 were within the study area.

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Health

28% of Study Area residents are uninsured. This is 75% higher than the remainder of Chicago based on 2014 data.

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Access to Jobs

22% of the Study Area population faces commutes to work in excess of 60 minutes, a rate that is 70% higher than the remainder of Chicago.

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Access to Arts Education

Of the 387 arts organizations in Chicago doing work within Chicago Public Schools, only 13% of them are headquartered within the Study Area.

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These numbers reflect arts organizations within the boundaries of the City of Chicago that worked with schools in CPS and provided headquarter information to Ingenuity.

Field Foundation grants

Between January 2015-January 2017 28% were headquartered in the Study Area.

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Two Chicagos

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MediaOrganizations:Of the 74 mediaorganizations inChicagoapproximatelyone third are inthe study area.

Media Funding:Over ten yearstime, only 6% ofgrant funding wasawarded toorganizationsinside of thestudy area.

Funding Gap:This translatesinto $60 millionless in fundingfor ALAANAmediaorganizations.