Searching for Chicago’s Most Family-Packed Neighborhoods

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A prospective Chicago parent wants to know where he could be within door-knocking distance of other families with kids. So we mapped them.

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0:00.0	It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region.
0:06.0	And investigate.
0:07.0	Report.
0:08.0	Explore.
0:09.0	From WBEZ.
0:10.0	Hi, my name's Eve Ewing, and I'm here to answer a question from David Lapello.
0:18.0	He lives in the Edgewater neighborhood and has been thinking about having
0:21.1	kids. He loves Chicago and wants to stay here and raise a family. So he asked Curious City,
0:27.5	what neighborhoods in Chicago have the most kids? Specifically, the highest density of kids.
0:33.9	As in, the most kids relative to the size of the area they live in.
0:39.3	Now, his question might seem like something only a parent or soon-to-be parent might be interested in,
0:44.3	like how to get a kid to sleep or what's the best baby food.
0:47.3	But it's deeper than that.
0:50.3	I'm a sociologist at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration,
0:54.8	and the question ended up touching on all kinds of areas I study, like race, education, and urban issues.
1:02.0	It's about who lives in Chicago and who will live here in the future.
1:09.7	But before we get into all of that, let's start with the simplest answer.
1:15.0	The highest density of kids in Chicago can be found in the northwest side neighborhood of Albany Park.
1:23.1	That's where we meet this guy.
1:25.1	My name is Moji. That's what they call me here.
1:28.7	But my real name is El Mushabab Mahab.
1:32.8	Moji is 10, and he's originally from Sudan.
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