ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the flight of industry from many of Chicago’s neighborhoods and the lingering effects of the latest phase of economic restructuring, with an emphasis on youth joblessness. It draws on research from the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago to highlight the crisis of chronic and concentrated conditions of joblessness among teens and young adults in Chicago that has persisted for generations and worsened since the 2008 recession. Reports from the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago brought attention to the “chronic, concentrated and comparatively worse” conditions of joblessness among teens and young adults in Chicago neighborhoods with high concentrations of Blacks and Latinos. Chicago is a city where the dynamics of deindustrialization reflect “processes of disassembling at the local level that create spaces and societies in constant crisis”. In January 2017, the Great Cities Institute produced “Abandoned in their Neighborhoods: Youth Joblessness amidst the Flight of Industry and Opportunity”.
