“THE next mayor of Chicago will be Latino,” predicts John Hagedorn at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Latinos recently became the second-largest ethnic group in the city, accounting for 29.7% of the population, overtaking African-Americans (29.3%) and rivalling whites (32.6%).
For decades the local Democratic Party’s machine was able to ignore Latinos. Today this would be political suicide. READ MORE AT THE ECONOMIST
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