Did Chicago Lose 10% of Its' Black Population in the Last Decade?

The New York Times reports:

The 2000 Census reported that there were 1,054,000 non-Hispanic blacks in Chicago, with 337,361 in suburban Cook County. Those city numbers then started falling, according to the American Community Survey, which is the Census Bureau replacement for the old long form of the Census.

By 2008, the last year for this data, it was down to 936,505, more than a 10 percent drop. The suburban Cook figure is up to 381,886. As a whole, the 2010 city population will probably show a very small drop from the 2,896,000 in the 2000 Census, largely due to a boom in the number of Hispanics.

Chicago's declining population.