• Chicago ranks fifth in the nation for the most residentially segregated metropolitan area by race (based on dissimilarity index).
• Contrary to the belief that segregation is the product of economic and not racial discrimination census data shows that African Americans and Caucasians of the same social class are just as segregated as all African Americans and Caucasians (taken from Chicago Urban League)
• The economic boom of the 1990s made it possible for more families to purchase homes, with homeownership increasing from 61.0% to 64.6% from 1990-2000. Unfortunately, this positive trend is starting to mirror the segregation that already exists in metropolitan Chicago. Most of the people moving into the Suburbs are Caucasian and Asian American. Latino’s have been the most successful in uniform migration into the suburbs, and the few African Americans that do move generally stay on the South and Southwest sides.
• Nearly 4 out of 5 new homes purchased between 1993 and 1999 are located in the suburbs
• Between 1993 and 1999, 80% of the homes purchased by Asian Americans and Caucasians were purchased in the suburbs, compared to 56% for African Americans and Latinos.
• African Americans have begun to move into the suburbs, but the shift has been concentrated in the South and South collar suburbs.
• Asian Americans have followed what can be considered a typically Caucasian settlement pattern, concentrating into the Northern suburbs, which are also the suburbs with the highest-median selling prices.
• The suburban Latino population has seen the most dramatic increase; from 1990 to 2000 the proportion of Latinos to other suburban residents rose from 1 in 20 to 1 in 10.*

(statistics taken from Minding the Gap unless otherwise noted)