Minorities contributed to all of metro Chicago's net population growth during the 1990s, with consistently high segregation levels for blacks and increasing segregation rates for suburban Latinos. With the number of whites declining in the city and unchanged in the suburbs, Latinos have been the overwhelming driver of population growth. Asians have also seen dramatic rates of increase. Minority increases have been especially strong in the suburbs. Population growth in the City of Chicago has been substantially slower. Asians are adopting neighborhood settlement patterns similar to those of whites. Chicago's child population is both more heavily minority and more racially segregated than the population as a whole. While the number of Asian and Latino children grew by 50 percent or more, the number of while children in Chicago decreased by 23 percent. Growth rates of minority homeowners outstripped even the rapid minority population increase. Segregation between white and minority homeowners is on par with segregation levels among the overall population and is especially high between black and white homeowners, regardless of city or suburban residence. Given population increases by several different minority groups, the growth of multi-ethnic neighborhoods is notable, particularly in the suburbs. Relatively few Census tracts that were moderately integrated in 1990 made the dramatic transition to become majority-minority by 2000. In the City of Chicago, all tracts that made this transition were predominantly Latino. Three figures are appended: Change in Population by Race/Ethnicity: 1990-2000; Community Areas with Greatest Absolute Change in Population by Race: 1990-2000; and Change in Child Population by Race/Ethnicity: 1990-2000. (Contains 18 figures.) (SM)