Chicago
Amazon’s same-day service area includes about 2.2 million people in the city, but excludes about 472,000 people in Chicago’s predominantly black South Side. Amazon’s vice president for global communications, Craig Berman, says the South Side ZIP codes are beyond the reach of the company’s distribution center in Kenosha, Wisconsin, about two hours north of the city. Yet sameday service is available to Prime members in Oak Lawn, which is eight miles further south than the excluded portions of Chicago and has a white population of about 85 percent. The company does offer the service in largely black neighborhoods in the city’s center, including Austin.