The third most populous U.S. city, Chicago, is acutely divided by race and ethnicity. More affluent and mostly white neighborhoods are located along the waterfront of Lake Michigan, while many Black, low-income neighborhoods are located in the southern and western parts of the city. ThesemapsfromBloomberg CityLab use data from the Census Bureau and the City of Chicago and show Black residents are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than their white neighbors.
Analysts point to a variety of factors that lead to health disparities in Chicago: higher rates of poverty, unemployment, air pollution, and asthma incidence rates, making it more difficult to access quality health care, and increasing severe health risks when contracting the virus. The state of Illinois has seen 295,720 confirmed cases and almost 9,000 deaths from COVID-19 according to Johns Hopkins University.
There have been 15,871 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in New York City. Until yesterday, the data was not connected to geographical location. Check out the newest map using the latest from the NYC Department of Health.
Interestingly, this map shows a population virtually the opposite by income and status of a previous map of those New Yorkers who were able to flee the city during the pandemic! But the message remains the same: wealth and privilege provide more spatial mobility and choice of locale in whatever circumstances!
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Christopher Columbus probably used the map above as he planned his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492. It represents much of what Europeans knew about geography on the verge discovering the New World, and it’s packed with text historians would love to read—if only the faded paint and five centuries of wear and tear hadn’t rendered most of it illegible.
For our subscribers: Our professional map of control in Yemen’s civil war has been updated to May 2021, as Houthi forces have reached positions just a few kilometers from Marib city, the last northern stronghold of the internationally-recognized Hadi government.
Subscribers:New map of control in Libya. With a peace deal and unity government now in place, Libya’s civil war appears to be over. But former rival forces still maintain their own separate areas of control for now.
For our subscribers: PolGeoNow’s Somalia control map has been revised and updated for February 2021! Though lines of control in the south haven’t changed much, Al Shabaab has been seizing villages in the north, plus we’ve made some adjustments after a thorough review of available sources. And as always, the report includes a detailed timeline of territorial, political, and military events since our previous update in October.
Among those events: A battle over villages held by holdout forces, a siege across the ceasefire line, and the contentious re-establishment of the border between southern Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Subscribers: PolGeoNow’s Syria map has been updated for the events of the past four months, with the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS/ISIL) losing its last firmly-controlled site in the central desert. However, the group is still very much active, operating from mobile camps, and we’ve illustrated its major areas of presence with a new symbol on the map.
