Latino population leaving city for suburbs - Roundtable discussions held to help Latinos integrate into suburban life - Chicago

The increase in the Chicago area’s Latino population reflects a well-documented national trend.

But contrary to popular belief, new births — not immigration — account for most of the Latino growth in the six-county suburban region.

Every year, more and more Latinos make the suburbs home. As of 2006, 1.7 million Latinos, or 55 percent of the Chicago area’s Latino population, lived in the suburbs.”*

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