How many native Chicagoans live in Chicago?

Answer 1

It depends on the neighborhood and age group. Unfortunately, gentrification has driven out many native Chicagoans from the neighborhoods within 2-3 miles of downtown. Bucktown, for example, has virtually no native Chicagoans. Some other neighborhoods with barely any Chicago natives are Taylor Street, Edgewater, Lakeview, Hyde Park, Ravenswood, Wicker Park, Roscoe Village, Lincoln Park, Bucktown, and the South Loop.

To find the real Chicago populated by Chicago natives you have to be west of California on the north side or almost the entire south side. Neighborhoods like Portage Park, Belmont Cragin, Galewood, Jefferson Park, Edgebrook, Garfield Ridge, Bridgeport and many more, are full of native Chicagoans.

Ironically, the suburbs along Milwaukee Ave just north of Chicago are full of native Chicagoans, mainly Park Ridge, Niles, Des Plaines. Also some of the western suburbs like Norridge, Harwood Heights and Elmwood Park.

A native Chicagoan would never use the term "the city" to refer to Chicago. They would always say "Chicago". A suburbanite or someone from outside of Illinois usually refers to Chicago as "the city".

Answer 2

about 205 no joke