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Why is the population of Chicago decreasing? 

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Hence, the ageing of the population is likely to have a decreasing effect on transportation demand.
Still, even with the decreasing participation rates of the past few years, because population is the single most important factor in determining the size and composition of the labor force, the declining growth of the labor force is more a result of the declining growth rate of the population over the years.
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Todd Sink, Brian Ceh 
01 Jan 2011-Geoforum
12 Citations
This movement is reshaping the landscape of advantage and disadvantage in Chicago: suburbs are becoming poorer while the old neighborhoods are gentrifying.
Our results support a trend toward decreasing population with simultaneously increasing household number.
This turning point is driven by the rate of decline in fatalities/vehicles as income rises since vehicles/population, while increasing with income at a decreasing rate, never declines with economic growth.
An analysis ofthis expansion process for Chicago, using 1970, 1980, and 1990 census data, illustrates that the movement of neighborhoods into and out of poverty is related to their previous poverty level, relative location, and rate of population loss.
The degree of change is less than found at St. Louis, possibly a result of the inhibiting lake influences at Chicago.
Nationally, there is apparent progress in reducing Black-White disparities; this is not true for Chicago.