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Mr. Illini
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« on: December 24, 2014, 01:18:57 AM »

I've been filling in maps for Chicago-area townships recently and plan on doing it further, so I thought it warranted a thread.
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2014, 01:41:37 AM »
« Edited: December 24, 2014, 01:48:36 AM by Mr. Illini »

What I've got so far:










EDIT: BELOW SHOULD READ "DURBIN" and "OBERWEIS"


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« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2014, 08:21:13 PM »

What I've got so far:










EDIT: BELOW SHOULD READ "DURBIN" and "OBERWEIS"



I'd be interested to see the swing for Governor from 2010-2014.
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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2014, 12:35:39 AM »

2014 Sec. of State. Jesse White lost nowhere and got sub-60% in only three townships, Barrington, Lemont, and Orland (which he was less than 1% away from 60%).

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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2015, 02:11:46 AM »

2006 Governor. Interesting outcome, and interesting to see the Green's impact in this one.

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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2015, 07:09:23 PM »

Went through in bulk and made these babies. Mapping out election results by township along Chicago's affluent North Shore communities.

Trends you'll notice:

-Evanston is solidly Democratic. This is thanks to a mix of rich cosmopolitan liberals and a decent minority population.
-Moraine Township is also heavily Democratic. This is home to Highland Park and has a significant wealthy Jewish population.
-Shields township, home of Lake Forest, is a Republican bedrock. This is more exurban and Christian.
-New Trier township is a bellweather. This one is perhaps richest on the map, and also contains a good mix of Lake Forest-y types, Highland Park types, and Evanston types.

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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2015, 08:23:05 PM »



Per OldiesFreak's resquest, I put together the 2010-2014 swing for governor. Light pink/sky blue is 0-5% swing, darker pink/off blue is 5-10%, and royal blue is 10-15%.

New Trier and Northfield trended hard to Rauner, no surprise. It's his backyard and he fit the area very well. Similar trends in the NW burbs; we saw 5-10% GOP trends throughout there. Modest Quinn trends in the city and in the southern suburbs reflect the lack of a strong third choice (Scott Lee Cohen picked up a few percent in 2010). In reality those areas were probably about even or slight Rauner trend.
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« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2015, 10:24:00 PM »

DuPage County, 2014 Governor

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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2015, 08:10:38 PM »
« Edited: February 19, 2015, 08:53:45 PM by Mr. Illini »

My baby is finished. I've spent a crazy amount of time working on it thanks to Illinois' system of publishing results.

Kankakee County is included and DeKalb is not, despite them both having "kind of" status on being suburbs. Kankakee's results were a lot easier to formulate. DeKalb's were near impossible.

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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2015, 08:28:44 PM »

And of course, I couldn't not do an annotated version.

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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2015, 05:36:19 PM »

And of course, I couldn't not do an annotated version.



Why are Zion, Pembrooke, and Waukegan so heavily minority?
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« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2015, 09:48:51 AM »

And of course, I couldn't not do an annotated version.



Why are Zion, Pembrooke, and Waukegan so heavily minority?
I did a look-up on Pembroke, and it has the worst soil in eastern Illinois, and was available to black farmers.  One anecdote said that there were more PhD theses written on the area than any other subject.

Zion was founded as a religious utopian town (they banned not only the usual vices, but tan-colored shoes).  The founding sect adhered to a flat earth doctrine into the 1930s.   I didn't find an explanation for the population, other than there were two nuclear plants.
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« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2015, 03:43:37 PM »

And of course, I couldn't not do an annotated version.



Why are Zion, Pembrooke, and Waukegan so heavily minority?

For Waukegan, that's actually a very recent thing. For years, Waukegan was a large, middle class white suburb. Not as wealthy as the suburbs to the south of it. Much of Waukegan's Hispanic population consists of immigrants and some from Chicago, likely in search of those middle class jobs. Unfortunately, it resulted in a lot of white flight. Also unfortunately, with the departure of manufacturing, it has considerably worsened Waukegan's economy.
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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2015, 12:29:19 PM »

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« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2015, 01:39:09 PM »

2008 Democratic Primary in Lake County IL

Obama won all townships. His best performances were in Shields and Zion, each townships with sizeable black populations. His worst performances were in Moraine (heavily Jewish, many Democratic donors going back decades), Vernon (heavily Asian), and the northwestern townships (white working class).

Overall, though, Obama did incredibly well throughout.

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« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2015, 08:24:09 PM »

And of course, I couldn't not do an annotated version.



When you say "Heavily Christian", do you mean Evangelicals or conservative mainline Protestants or just churchy people in general?
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« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2015, 11:20:32 AM »

And of course, I couldn't not do an annotated version.



When you say "Heavily Christian", do you mean Evangelicals or conservative mainline Protestants or just churchy people in general?

There's a sizeable Evangelical population (one of the largest megachurches in the USA is in South Barrington). It reminds me a bit of the rich populations of Orange County, whereas the North Shore is more like the rich populations of suburban New York or Boston.

I really want to do the same map but for the 2012 Presidential because that map would really show how different wealthy people in the Barrington area are from wealthy people along the North Shore.
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« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2015, 07:02:33 PM »

Just realized I have a 2008 map with a similar line up of townships. Quite a different story.



Can't take credit for it btw
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« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2015, 09:57:31 AM »

Lake County IL precinct-level, 2012 Presidential

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« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2015, 06:11:38 PM »

Nice map! You must have put a lot of effort. Good job.

BTW, what were the results of Chicago city proper in 2014 and 2012? I've been dying to know but I really haven't found results for it.
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« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2015, 06:51:06 PM »

Thanks! As to your question:

Obama 84%
Romney 14%
 
Quinn 77%
Rauner 20%

And 2008 was Obama 85% to McCain 13%
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« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2015, 09:23:14 PM »

Thanks for these awesome productions Illini! I learn a lot about Chicagoland political geography by this.
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« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2015, 10:31:31 PM »

Excellent work!  Cheesy
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« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2015, 03:54:07 PM »

Did another of Lake County. This one from the 2008 Presidential.

You'll notice that the eastern half of the county saw little to no change from 2008 to 2012 whereas the western portion of the county saw widespread flips from Obama to Romney. The demographic and cultural divisions are much deeper and more present in the eastern half.

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« Reply #24 on: November 04, 2015, 03:47:51 PM »

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