Greater Grand Crossing - 2.9.11

where the sun don't shine

There has been little construction in Greater Grand Crossing since the 1930s, and the community has undergone significant depopulation since the 1960s. In 1960 the population stood at 63,169. Between 1980 and 1990 the population dropped from 45,218 to 38,644. Although as of 1990 a fifth of the population, 56 percent of which were African American women, lived at or below poverty level, a third of the residents of Greater Grand Crossing were second- and third-generation property owners.

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