Mr. Illini's Chicagoland Township Map Thread

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Great work!  I really enjoy these maps

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Thanks, Green Line!

I've merged my city-by-ward and suburb-by-township maps for a full map of Cook County.

Such a beautifully Democratic county. Outliers are Barrington in the NW - a rural wealthy suburb. Lemont and Orland in the SW - rural and white working class.

Other than that a whole lot of Democratic red. Biggest change since the 80s is in the northern portions. Skokie, Evanston, New Trier, Northfield, Wheeling, Schaumburg, etc would have been mostly to solid GOP 30 years ago - now solid Dem.

Beauty is subjective!  Also rural may qualify for Lemont but Orland is definitely not rural or working class in any sense.  It's a pretty typical Cook County suburb, just slightly less dense than Schaumburg and middle to upper middle class

It really is amazing how well Obama ran in places like Palatine and Palos in 2008

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Lemont is CERTAINLY the least dense of the townships presented @muon

See here, although the map is old, it has not seen rapid population: http://130.166.124.2/chiatlas/chi149.GIF

Orland perhaps less so. Barrington actually moreso, which differentiates it from New Trier - both have incredible wealth but NT (60% Obama) is dense, Barrington (50% McCain) is less so

Lemont has actually seen pretty decent growth.  7,348 people in 1990 (the date of your map) to 16,661 in 2014.  Most of Lemont township is just uninhabited forest preserves, but the actual town of Lemont where everyone lives is much smaller and denser, just 8 sq miles.  Not that anyone cares, but there is my geography lesson on southwest cook county!

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Its population is only 21k. The only townships smaller are Barrington + others that are significantly smaller in land area and closer to the city.

Ok, you called it rural, that's what I was responding to.

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Its population is only 21k. The only townships smaller are Barrington + others that are significantly smaller in land area and closer to the city.

Ok, you called it rural, that's what I was responding to.

You tell me. That's the town of Lemont in red.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Cook_County_Illinois_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Lemont_highlighted.svg/800px-Cook_County_Illinois_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Lemont_highlighted.svg.png

Yes, im aware... That map shows nothing which proves your point. What am I supposed to be seeing

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2014 Gubernatorial as well

Notice all of those north suburban townships that went for Obama twice went for Rauner. Also notice a ward in the city going for Rauner.

In the city, Quinn was largely able to hold Obama's numbers among African Americans. The Hispanic and white areas are where we saw sharp R swings.

Is that purple spot a tie?

Quinn held up well with whites on the southwest side too. Worth township should have fell before most of those northern suburbs going off Obama's numbers

Although that probably says more about Obama than it does Quinn

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2014 Gubernatorial as well

Notice all of those north suburban townships that went for Obama twice went for Rauner. Also notice a ward in the city going for Rauner.

In the city, Quinn was largely able to hold Obama's numbers among African Americans. The Hispanic and white areas are where we saw sharp R swings.

Is that purple spot a tie?

Quinn held up well with whites on the southwest side too. Worth township should have fell before most of those northern suburbs going off Obama's numbers

Although that probably says more about Obama than it does Quinn

My initial inkling is that that is a very historically Irish area, which would obviously aid Quinn.

Also worth noting that Rauner was a better fit for the northern suburbs.

Yeah its socially conservative and heavily union, the worst fit for Rauner

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Can you make the same maps with Kirk numbers from 2010?  It would be interesting to compare the Kirk and Rauner vote.  The margins in Cook County were almost the same but I wonder how different their coalitions were.

Edit: I glanced at the numbers real quick and it looks like Kirk won Worth Township in 2010 despite getting 2% lower than Rauner

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btw, how did Rauner win Aurora?

He made serious inroads with Hispanics.

Rauner did pretty well with Hispanics for a Republican, but it was mostly due to the white areas of Aurora having way higher turnout. 

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For the Democratic primary in Cook, I'm expecting Clinton to win by a lot (possibly up to 20 points). Still, the well off liberal white areas will vote for Bernie, like Evanston. The only places I see Bernie having a chance in area University hubs like Champaign-Urbana and (maybe) northwest Illinois (I'm guessing Bernie will do well in Eastern Iowa)

I anticipate moderate Clinton margins in NW and SW Cook (Palatine, Barrington, Schaumburg, etc; Orland, Lemont, etc), Sanders victories in super white liberal areas (Evanston, Skokie, Park Ridge, Oak Park, LaGrange, Chicago Northside, etc), large Clinton margins in Hispanic and black areas (Cicero, Berwyn, Chicago Southside, Chicago Westside, Rich, Bloom, etc).

Probably something like 60-30 Clinton.

Park Ridge is not particularly Liberal, it votes Republican more often than not.  Aside from that, Hillary is from Park Ridge and went to Maine South for High School.  I think she'll win big in that area.

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btw, how did Rauner win Aurora?

He made serious inroads with Hispanics.

Rauner did pretty well with Hispanics for a Republican, but it was mostly due to the white areas of Aurora having way higher turnout.  

How would white turnout improve his numbers with Hispanics?  Are you comparing white Hispanics to the non-white ones?

I was saying Rauner won Aurora because the electorate was significantly whiter than the actual population.  I wasn't trying to equate white turnout with his Hispanic numbers.  Sorry for the confusion

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My favorite map so far!  Did Moore come ahead of Alvarez in any of the North side Wards/townships?

And how the heck did criminal Dorothy Brown win her primary? Any chance you could do a map of that?

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Looks like Anita won Mexicans and lost Puerto Ricans. Sad! Crime in Cook County will continue to skyrocket no doubt.

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I'll have to do a map of the Brown race. Crazy stuff - Cook Co Dems fully rescinded their endorsement - should have been a death knell.

Somehow, she persevered. Gotta love Chicago politics! Always keeps you guessing.

Did your township/ward (can't remember if you're in the city or not) go Alvarez or Foxx?

Gotta love it... Unless you live here!

My home went for Alvarez strongly, but the ward where I live now was won by Foxx.
An election like this makes me wish Cook County had a top 2 jungle primary, because I think Alvarez would have had a decent shot at beating Foxx when you include Republican and Independent votes.