For the first time in decades, life expectancy for Black Chicagoans fell below 70 years old. In 2020, the gap in life expectancy between Black and White residents was 10 years, an increase from 8.8 years in 2017. BlackVoicesWTTW
Brenda Battle, senior vice president of community health transformation and chief diversity, inclusion & equity officer at University of Chicago Medicine, said the numbers shed light on the need to address health disparities.
West Side United is an organization working to reduce the life expectancy gap between Chicago’s West Side and downtown, which it found to be a 14-year difference. West Side United and its partners say the main causes of death leading to the life expectancy gap are cardio metabolic disease, infant mortality, homicide, opioid overdose and cancer. Executive Director Ayesha Jaco says there are social and systemic issues that also contribute to the gap.
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