In one part of Chicago’s Near West Side, the median household income is
$104,000. In another—about a mile away—it’s about
$20,000.A recent data visualization maps out the city’s stark income inequality in diagrams that look like a skyline: The taller the “building,” the higher the income on that block.
Tall buildings represent the wealthy; short ones represent the poor. What’s missing? The middle class.
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