How Oak Park, IL Social Engineers Stable Demographics

City Journal runs an article I've long been looking forward to: exactly how suburban Oak Park, Illinois (where my father grew up) managed to avoid ...

September 9, 2022
11:16 PM

City Journal runs an article I've long been looking forward to: exactly how suburban Oak Park, Illinois (where my father grew up) managed to avoid getting destroyed by tipping from all white to all black like Oak Park's neighbor, the Austin neighborhood of Chicago (where my wife grew up). In Austin in the late 1960s, unscrupulous realtors went for the Quick Killing of flipping the whole place from white to black, pocketing commissions on every house on a block in a couple of years, and often two sales: white to middle class black to underclass black.