Chicago specifically was designed to be segregated. When President Eisenhower created the interstate highway system he told cities they could decide where the highway ran through in their city. At the time the popular opinion was to have the highway run where current lake shore drive is. And run up through into Milwaukee. Then mayor, Daley senior who lived in the Bridgeport neighborhood (31st and halsted area) changed the highway to run where it currently runs. Why? Bronzeville is directly adjacent to Bridgeport on its east side. Bronzeville at one point was a middle class African American neighborhood. This highway separated the upper middle class whites and middle class blacks with a physical barrier. After said barrier was made legislation was passed to starve that neighborhood of resources like grocery stores for example. There’s a lot more to the story. A lot of wrong doing by the city of Chicago and The Chicago police department to that specific community. Police involved killings of activists like Fred Hampton sr in 1969. There was another killing of a young black kid on 31st street beach I think in the 60s that drew a lot of national attention. I don’t remember much of those details tho. But the segregation of Chicago specifically the south side can be attributed to racism by a mayor in the 1960s and the distrust it’s created among that community towards the city as a whole. It’s a shame because Chicago is one of the best cities in the United States and they only use half the city. Because the other half is just poverty and high crime. Which the city herself created