[TABLE 8]

BRIDGEPORT RETAIL STATISTICS, 1948, 1958

A: Retail Sales: Bridgeport/South/Southwest Community Comparison
Retail sales in millions of dollars and other statistics

<-----------------------1948------------------------>		<---------------1958---------------->	<48-60>
Community	TTL	MED	SALES	%CITY	%CITY		TTL 	MED	SALES	%CITY	%CITY	 %
Area		POP	INC	$ MIL	SALES	 POP	MI	POP	INC	$ MIL	SALES	POP	CHNG
----------	-----	----	-----	-----	----	---	-----	----	-----	----	----	-----
Armour Sq.	23294	2415	 10.8	0.3	0.6	0.2	15783	4311	 10.5	0.2	0.4	 -2.8
Bridgport	46070	3457	117.3	3.3	1.3	1.8	41560	5622	 38.8	0.8	1.2	-66.9
McKinley Pk.	18813	3563	 14.6	0.4	0.5	2.7	16908	6253	 14.9	0.3	0.5	 +2.1
Brighton Pk.	41345	3812	 30.7	0.9	1.1	4.1	38019	6090	 52.1	1.1	1.1	+69.7
Archer Hts.	 8675	4195	  4.0	0.1	0.2	5.7	10584	7122	 14.5	0.3	0.3	 +263
Garfield Rg.	12900	4228	  6.2	0.2	0.4	6.8	40449	7712	 22.4	0.5	1.1	 +261

Fuller Sq.	17174	2737	  9.9	0.3	0.5	2.9	12181	3886	  9.4	0.2	0.3	 -5.0
New City	75917	3393	 70.3	2.0	2.1	3.9	67428	5801	 74.8	1.6	1.9	 +6.4
Englewood	94134	3380	150.2	4.2	2.6	5.3	97595	4828	141.1	2.9	2.7	 -6.1
Gage Park	30149	4253	 16.8	0.5	0.8	5.4	28244	6829	 30.6	0.6	0.8	+82.1
Chicago Lwn.	50211	4111	 69.2	1.9	1.4	6.4	51347	6872	102.1	2.1	1.4	+47.5


B: Sectorial Overview and Comparison
Total retail sales and population

							% change
			1948-50		1958-60		1948-60
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Archer Corridor
	Sales ($M)	 183.6	 	153.2		-30.4
	Population	151097		163303		 +8.1

South/Southwest
	Sales ($M)	 316.4		 358.0		+13.1
	Population	267585		256795		 -4.0


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Notes: 
 Category abbreviations: tot pop=total population, med inc=median income
 in 1949/59, sales $ mil=sales in millions of dollars in 1948/58, % city
 sales=percent share of Chicago retail sales outside of the Loop in
 1948/58, % city pop=percent share of Chicago's population in 1950/60,
 mi=road mileage from Archer/Cermak to community area's main business
 district, % change=percent change from 1948-50 to 1958-60. 

Source:
 1958 Census of Business, pp, 13-72--73; Chicago Commercial Reference
 Handbook (1963), pp. 239-40, 244-46; and Local Community Fact Book:
 Chicago Metropolitan Area, [1950], pp. 143, 155, 231, 235, 239, 243, 247,
 251, 259, 271, 279; 1960, table IV-1, pp. 248-51. See bibliograpy for
 publication information.