Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007-2014

Marynia Kolak; Michelle Bradley; Daniel R Block; Lindsay Pool; Gaurang Garg; Chrissy Kelly Toman; Kyle Boatright; Dawid Lipiszko; Julia Koschinsky; Kiarri Kershaw; Mercedes Carnethon; Tamara Isakova; Myles Wolf

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.003

Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007-2014

Health Place. 2018 Jul:52:231-239. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.003. Epub 2018 Jul 9.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; Center for Spatial Data Science, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Ave, Room 230, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: mkolak@uchicago.edu.
² Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: michelle.bradley@northwestern.edu.
³ Department of Geography, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive, Chicago, IL 60628, USA. Electronic address: dblock@csu.edu.
⁴ Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: lindsay.pool@northwestern.edu.
⁵ Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: gaurang.garg@northwestern.edu.
⁶ Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: chrissy.kelly@northwestern.edu.
⁷ Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: kdboatright@burnsmcd.com.
⁸ Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: dlipiszko@luc.edu.
⁹ Center for Spatial Data Science, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Ave, Room 230, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: jkoschinsky@uchicago.edu.
¹⁰ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 251 East Huron Street, Galter Suite 3-150, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: kiarri.kershaw@northwestern.edu.
¹¹ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 251 East Huron Street, Galter Suite 3-150, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: carnethon@northwestern.edu.
¹² Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: tamara.isakova@northwestern.edu.
¹³ Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N. St. Clair, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: myles.wolf@duke.edu.

PMID: 30015180
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.003

Abstract

We investigated changes in supermarket access in Chicago between 2007 and 2014, spanning The Great Recession, which we hypothesized worsened local food inequity. We mapped the average street network distance to the nearest supermarket across census tracts in 2007, 2011, and 2014, and identified spatial clusters of persistently low, high or changing access over time. Although the total number of supermarkets increased city-wide, extremely low food access areas in segregated, low income regions did not benefit. Among black and socioeconomically disadvantaged residents of Chicago, access to healthy food is persistently poor and worsened in some areas following recent economic shocks.

Keywords: Chicago; Food access; Great recession; Health inequities; Racial disparities; Spatial analysis.

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Censuses
Chicago
Cities
Commerce
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data*
Food Supply / statistics & numerical data*
Geographic Information Systems
Humans
Poverty
Poverty Areas*
Residence Characteristics*