Mr. Illini's Chicagoland Township Map Thread

[Mr. Illini]

I've been filling in maps for Chicago-area townships recently and plan on doing it further, so I thought it warranted a thread.

[Mr. Illini]

What I've got so far:










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

[Mr. Illini]

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%).

[Mr. Illini]

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

[Mr. Illini]

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.

[Mr. Illini]

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.

[Mr. Illini]

DuPage County, 2014 Governor

[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.

[Mr. Illini]

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

[Mr. Illini]

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.

[Mr. Illini]

[Mr. Illini]

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.

[Mr. Illini]

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.

[Mr. Illini]

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

[Mr. Illini]

Lake County IL precinct-level, 2012 Presidential

[Mr. Illini]

Thanks! As to your question:

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

And 2008 was Obama 85% to McCain 13%

[Mr. Illini]

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.

[Mr. Illini]

[Mr. Illini]

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.

[Mr. Illini]

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

[Mr. Illini]

I think Wheeling, Schaumburg, and the surrounding suburbs still lean slightly R; the reason they're solid D here is mostly favorite son effect.

BTW, where do you get your templates?  I'd like to try to work on a statewide map for Illinois.

We'll see come 2016. I suspect that those areas will remain 50s for the Dems - they swung to Rauner, but many Lean D areas did

The city template I got from this site. The Cook suburban template I forgot where I obtained, but you may be able to grab mine and make a map of your own.

For this map specifically, I inserted the city map into the cook suburban map using photo editing software to make a full Cook County.

[Mr. Illini]

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

[Mr. Illini]

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

[Mr. Illini]

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

That area of Cook County is disproportionately sparsely populated. Perhaps it depends on what you consider "rural."

[Mr. Illini]

Did the same thing for 2012