Mapping Chicago Politics

  • March 13, 2019
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 CST
  • IES 123/124
  • Dr. Kyle Roberts, kroberts2@luc.edu
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    Mapping Chicago Politics and the Power of Data-Driven Storytelling featuring Dr. LaDale Winling, Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech
    No city in the United States is more studied than Chicago and no city's politics are more notorious than Chicago's. The familiar metaphors of the Chicago *machine* and emphasis on City Hall, however, obscures the granularity of political will, the locality and contested nature of ward politics, and the changing demographics of the city over time. This talk featuring the Chicago Elections Project, a publicly-oriented digitization and mapping project, will assess the changing strength of racial coalitions in Chicago, and provide evidence for new narratives and models for understanding city politics.