ABSTRACT
While affluent professionals have moved into downtown condominium towers, gentrified neighborhoods, and suburban gated communities, newer immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the poor live in poorer neighborhoods sprinkled throughout the metropolitan region. The immigration of Asians, Latinos, and other groups has made most metropolitan areas, including their suburbs, multiethnic rather than biracial. Cicero is very different: long a white working-class bastion known for rough-and-tumble, often corrupt politics, in only a decade it has become a majority-Latino city. Suburbs of all types are similarly changing in metropolitan areas across the United States. The demographic movements associated with the global economy have made the city and its suburbs racially and ethnically diverse. For many cities, the outcome was very much in doubt. Those that had prospered during the industrial era went through a painful period of economic restructuring when manufacturing jobs moved elsewhere and service employment became the new engine of growth.
