The Sun-Times Sunday edition included several stories relating to the closing 10 years ago of 50 mostly elementary schools. One graphic included with one story compared changes in population in census tracts where schools closed with other census tracts where schools had not closed.
The graphic showed that population fell materially more in Black and Latino census tracts where schools closed compared to Black and Latino tracts where schools had not closed. In white and mixed census tracts, population actually rose more in tracts where schools closed than in tracts where schools did not close, although population increased in both sorts of tracts.
