The history of the Marquette Park neighborhood in terms of demographics is that it was originally an all white neighborhood named after the famous french explorer Jacques Marquette who found and settled a lot of areas near and in Chicago. In the beginning Marquette Park was an all white neighborhood. During the early 1900s to the late 1970s and 1980s Marquette remained an all white neighborhood some of the people who live here recall when they were not allowed to come into this neighborhood. These whites were a mixture of Germans and Irish who have decided to coexist with each other and unite. As a result the community was very powerful and prominent in Chicago but along with the Englewood white flight the Marquette Park also coincided with this event as they occurred near the same time and over the same reason: Blacks began to penetrate their community and so they didn't want to integrate and fled back to an extremely segregated environment which existed in the suburbs. After that period of time blacks began to populate the Englewood and Marquette area. Since blacks were disenfranchised with no access to capitol at that time and is very much the same today you had no business sprung up so the community began to become more and more desolate and impoverished because money is constantly leaving the community.