Current Events > Less Affluent White suburbs of Chicago even out Covid Demographics

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Zip codes 60714 and 60453 are suburban white non latinx. While Niles and Oak Lawn are considered to be affluent, some areas are less so. After the first surge back in March 2020, these and other suburbs brought the white death rate up.

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As the pandemic ebbed in Cook County through the summer and fall, an increasingly larger share of white residents became infected. Cook County medical examiners office records show 4,190 white, non-Hispanic Cook County residents have died of coronavirus. The two hardest-hit ZIP codes have been 60714 in Niles, with 217 deaths, and 60453 in Oak Lawn, with 183 deaths.
Higher poverty rates and death have long been intertwined, and that correlation is most apparent in the north suburbs. Compared with Winnetka and Wilmette, Northbrook and Skokie have half the median income. And their residents are five times more likely to die from COVID-19, according to the data analysis.

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Systemic racism only works for the ruling class.

• At the height of the first wave of the pandemic last April, a majority of monthly Cook County COVID-19 deaths, 42.5%, were of Black residents, while 36% of deaths were of white residents and 15.4% were of Latinos. Those figures stood in stark contrast to the countys racial makeup, which is 42% white, 23.8% Black and 25.6% Latino.
• But since the spring, COVID-19 deaths in Cook County have become more representative of the Chicago areas racial makeup, reflecting the widespread community transmission of the virus. By the end of February, 43.8% of all COVID deaths were white; 21.9% were Latino; and 27.6% were Black.

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/3/12/22321953/cook-county-covid-deaths-coronavirus-cicero-city-view-alden-manor-joanna-bermudez

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