West Englewood

But first, give us a little bit of your background.

Well, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, uh, both in the, uh, Cabrini-Green and West Englewood area.

I have a, um...

I came from a family of eight.

So give us the story of Reverend Raven.

Okay, well, I grew up in the West Englewood neighborhood of South Side of Chicago.

Right during the middle of the summer of love, I guess, or 60s, I was pretty much like the Freddie Bartholomew character in that TV show.

I can't remember the name of it anymore, but he's the younger brother.

And Austin actually had the largest increase in population of Latino neighbors, according to the report.

Other areas include West Englewood, Garfield Ridge.

So really across all over the city, neighborhoods that have traditionally not been home to Latinos are absorbing a population and they're kind of changing as this happens and they're expected to change.

One of the really interesting things that the researchers did is look at where Latinos are getting the most like loans to purchase a home.

And Austin in the west side also had the most Latinos getting loans to buy homes there.

So it shows us a trend that, you know, that that neighborhood might be more Latino in the next few years.

It's similar in West Englewood, which traditionally has been like a black neighborhood.

And.