Chicago population drops 200,000 as blacks go; other census findings revealed

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

The city of Chicago lost 200,000 people during the past decade, as an influx of whites and Asians was more than offset by a historic drop in the African-American population. The Hispanic population of the city proper stayed about even.

That's one of the bigger pieces of news in a detailed breakdown of results from the 2010 census that is being released today by federal officials.

For more on the decline of Chicago, we wrote this for New Geography in June of 2008(sorry to be right). No word yet from the urban boosters on this one.