Chicagoans’ life expectancy fell by nearly two years during the first year of the pandemic — one of the most dramatic single-year declines ever recorded — with Black and Latino residents suffering the steepest decreases, public health officials announced Monday.
“COVID has taken a terrible toll on the health and well-being of our city’s residents particularly those who are Black and Latinx,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement. “Without formally acknowledging this detrimental impact, and its roots in structural racism, we will never be able to move forward as a city.”
