Dips in Chicago's population could have serious financial impacts for city, state
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week showed Chicago losing approximately 8,200 residents in the span of a calendar year, which could not only drop the Windy City behind Houston in terms of America’s largest cities, but could also have big consequences in a variety of other ways. Randy Gyllenhaal explains.
That's an image of Dallas, not Houston.
That is the image of both Dallas and Houston.
@@benjaminingram4857 Good point. Those cities hate each other so much but it's literally a dog growling in the mirror.
Don’t come to Texas please it’s hot and full of
@@luisvilla799 don’t come to Tennessee either
That’s Dalouston
lol they show Dallas while saying “Houston”. 😂
Probably doesn't have anything to do with decades of mismanagement and ignoring certain important documents.
Illinois is going to lose more congressional seats. Perhaps that is a good thing.
Let them immigrants have Chicago! Get out! And free yourself
texas will lose people with their extreme weather
@@John_Lee_ to the contrary, the migrants count towards the census. Can't vote but will allow us to keep our seats! Gotta love Mayor Johnson and the Fat Man!!
@@John_Lee_not likely, show me statistics where the population of Texas has went down for 8 years straight, they've always had extreme weather, they can handle it, you just need to cope harder because Chicago sucks
Lots of my friends have left Illinois for Texas, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. They say their new homes have cheaper cost of living, cheaper property taxes and reduced crime.
Chicago is a toilet and is flushing Illinois down the drain.
Chicago is only a "toilet" in the 'hoods where the You-Know-Who Crowd lives. It's also a dumping ground for everything that N.I.M.B.Y. towns don't want.
As for Illinois, Springfield massively subsidizes rural Illinois, while Cook County gets LESS than it pays. Also, D.C. has been giving Illinois one of the worst deals for generations.
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! 😡😡
And when yall Northern come down south yall jacking up our prices slowly but surely
And when those tornados and hurricanes come they will make they way back to chicago
They're going to ruin those places too.
Texas has cheap property taxes? lol anyway lower taxes = lower services
Not to worry more foreigners will move to Chicago and new York and los Angeles and san Francisco.👍👍
As the illegals move in, the local punks haul ass! 🏃🏃🏃💨
You mean lawbreakers
Yep ✌🏽
@@Tom-nd1fsYup law breakers being funded by you own governments and politicians 😂😂
High taxes, high crime, and a bloated public sector. Why would you stick around if you didn’t have to?
Loyalty. Something foreign groups of people.
@@b1crusade384that loyalty costs you 1000 to 10,000 per year in taxes compared to WI, FL, TX, TN
@@DaleGribble1 Meanwhile, if you live without a car, you save a fortune every year. 😏 How easy is life without a vehicle in Houston (or WI, FL, TN, the rest of TX, etc.)? 🤔
Honestly? I stay here because I don't need a car to live here.
Crime is in certain bad neighborhoods, most of Chicago is very nice. Winters aren’t so bad anymore either.
Walkable? Only during daytime!
Not in my neighborhood.
There’s a minority of bad neighborhoods in Chicago, most areas are nice.
@@raybod1775 false, the south, west, and center of chicago are dangerous for walking. The north side is the calm minority.
No - because the Governor of Texas busses migrants here so we are staying 3rd place.
🎯
Yep and they’ll make up the lost tax revenue… oh sh*t wait…
The only people dumb enough to want to live there are illegal aliens
@willrobinson4976 i believe they are counted in the census, legal or illegal.
Chicago is 227 square miles while Houston is 667 square miles. Houston numbers include suburbs they have annexed like crazy. The news want people to believe Houston is catching up to Chicago when in reality the city numbers include suburbs they annexed. Some of those residents won't even claim they live in Houston. They still list their suburban city name when they get mail.
chicago is way ahead of Texas they have health conscious young men that will help you out of your car all the while wearing dr masks and armed with glocks with switches for safety
Even with all of that it doesnt matter the whole state is at a decline maybe because we are now the SECOND highest in property tax and ranked 4th highest state in unemployment.
I lived in Houston before, trust me their crime is just as bad
Chicago’s crime is similar to Nashville.
@@raybod1775 that's false , Tennessee ranked 2nd in crime last month while Chicago or Illinois doesn't even make the top 10
OK, That was some dark humor😂😂😂
Detroit is on the quiet rise.
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Dead cat bounce?
Tax all Chicago residents more to make up for it!
The plan and the cause in one act.
I guess property prices will drop soon in Chiraq
@@cr77702lived in Chicago and it was a shithole. It will be worse than Detroit in 5 years
@@cr77702 Dude, it's not just Fox News that's been bashing Chicago.🙄Of course, all the national media is based in New York, so what else would you expect? 🧐
Property prices in most of Chicago continues to rise. News media focuses on a select few bad neighborhoods.
Nope
Wait till all these businesses sick of the crime start closing up shop.
Moreover: A man is in critical condition after attempting to intervene in an armed robbery of two women early Friday morning in Mayor Brandon Lightfoot Johnson's Chicago
I find it hilarious that people think moving to another state and bringing their same problems with them will fix anything
What problems does Chicago have that Houston doesn’t also have? Except blizzards
Is it your suggestion, Mr greg, that ALL towns & cities in other states are as dangerous as Chicago, and that when people move from Chicago elsewhere those persons bring the same level of violence, criminality & lawlessness? I don't believe that the facts would mirror that opinion.
@@rogerforsberg3910 No, that’s not my suggestion. Do not put words your own words in my mouth or project whatever you think onto me thank you. The point of my comment can relate to our immigration problems too. Why not go fix your own country instead of bringing more issues here? It’s the same concept of people moving from Chicago to Houston. Houston has crime and violence too. Chicago is not lawless I can tell you don’t live here and get most of your info from the news
@@eligreg99 Your comment, Mr greg, reminds me of what Mark Twain might respond when he read something ignorant & presumptuous, "It's not what Mr greg knows that gets him into trouble, it's what he knows that ain't so!" To wit...
"No, that’s not my suggestion. Do not put words your own words in my mouth or project whatever you think onto me thank you."
I wasn't putting words in your mouth, I was asking a question -- that's why there's a question mark (?) at the end of the sentence.
"Why not go fix your own country instead of bringing more issues here?"
I'm not "bringing more issues here", I'm identifying the facts of crime in Chicago.
"Houston has crime and violence too."
That's true, but I don't live in Houston. If I did, I would try to do what's necessary to reduce crime in Houston.
"Chicago is not lawless I can tell you don’t live here and get most of your info from the news"
This is your most ignorant statement. I lived on the South Side for 4 years, and on the North Side for 8 years. I've traveled to Chicago (& continue to travel to Chicago) on business 4 times/year for the past decade & have seen the increasing criminality, violence & lawlessness.
I have long-time friends who live in Europe who in the past travelled to Chicago, NYC, & San Francisco routinely on holiday. They no longer travel to these cities because of the crime. You can deny that Chicago is dangerous, but people who can read know that you're wrong.
@@rogerforsberg3910 Well guess what. I live here and choose to stay here. I didn’t jump ship and rely on past experiences like yourself and word of mouth from other people. You clearly don’t know what an example is so I’m actually done with this conversation. You take my words and miss the point completely in an attempt to sound intelligent. Have a good day I will not be replying to you again.
A big impact on me? What about you miss news lady? You feel untouchable huh?
And yes, she is. She has more money than you and live better than you. She is not at your level. You are confused 😆
She's definitely touchable by a population drop💀💀💀 @@b1crusade384
@@b1crusade384why are you defending a snob?
Chicago's peak population was reached in 1950 and has steadily dropped. This is not news.
Yes, like so many other cities, it's dropped since 1950: but not "steadily."
1990 - 2000: up 4%.
2010 -2020: up 1.9%.
IL is like 150 billion in debt and trying to raise taxes by 1 billion
@@JdeC1994There were a million more people in Chicago in the 1950s compared to now. I'd say that's a pretty steady decline over the last 60 to 70 years.
@@UR_Right24 The big decrease was from 1950 - 1990. Back in those days, massive suburbanization was hardly unique to Chicagoland, right? 🧐 Chicago's 2020 population was almost exactly the same as in 1990. Since 1990, we've gained population two-out-of-three times. 🧐
I said he is like a business it only has two speeds either growth and prosperity or stagnation and collapse, Chicago is just a house of cards at this point
It's a fact that a lot of entities, business and otherwise, are leaving Illinois. I was just at the Pritzker Military Museum yesterday to see their War of 1812 exhibit. The docent told me they are relocating across the Wisconsin border to Kenosha in July. Mars is closing their Northwest Side factory, Citadel moved their headquarters to Florida, the list goes on. As long as the people in City Hall and Springfield keep creating an environment hostile to business the problem will continue. All they want to focus on is "social justice." Unfortunately that doesn't pay the bills.
You need to read some business journals. Chicago are Illinois are the number one city and state for corporate relocations. Chicago has been number one for a decade. Also, Houston has grown by annexing suburbs and is 665 square miles to Chicago's 227 square miles.
@@trongriffinproductions7159Caterpillar left for Texas
Bears might still leave town.
@@DaleGribble1 We want the Bears to leave and not get any tax money but they want to build on the lakefront. Friends of the Park is suing them to force them out like they did with the George Lucas museum. When did Caterpillar leave Chicago? I thought the company was in Deerfield, IL. How could they leave a city they were never in?
@@trongriffinproductions7159 oh, maybe they just left Illinois
IL is two hundred billion in debt and youre splitting hairs?
Over fifty thousand people leave IL each year.
That and all the companies leaving leaves everyone in IL with tax increases over and over again.
IL already has the second highest taxes of any state.
@@trongriffinproductions7159 IL is trying to raise taxes 938 billion dollars.
Fun
many of us Houstonians do not care about being the 3rd largest. Chicago can have it, we’re already full as it is.
Yeah, right; that population isn’t declining on any of the tollways (especially the Kennedy, Ike and 294)! Which parts - specifically - are you referring to?!🙄🙄🙄
Preach
Do not know where you are from but any driver in Chicago knows 294 and the Skyway are toll roads the rest are not(yet). After 40+ years of driving here the traffic is not as bad as it was except for the skill level has reduced massively and a lot of people should not be on the road as hazards to themselves and others.
Just like in New York, the vast majority of drivers on the Kennedy are suburbanites passing through the city. I believe Chicago's car ownership is something like 1 car per two persons.
@@traviskitteh There’s both inbound, outbound and passing through traffic. Where are they going and why would suburban drivers simply be passing through Chicago everyday, it doesn’t make any sense.
Why would people be leaving Chicago when the actions of the current mayor (Hizzoner, the Estimable Mayor B Johnson) & the former mayor (Heroner, the Venerable Mayoress L Lightfoot) indicate that they have/had NO interest (as in zero, zilch, nada) in keeping the common, ordinary citizens of the city SAFE from violence, criminality & lawlessness?
Those people leaving Chicago must either be very selfish, or they must value the safety of their families much more than that of the welfare of Chicago, itself.
I value my safety, so I live in Chicago (without a car). Uh, last year, how many Americans were badly injured/killed by vehicular accidents? 🧐🤔🤨
@@JdeC1994 You are well-advised, Mr J, to value your safety in Chicago.
However, in answer to your question, in 2023 about 41,000 people in the US were killed in auto accidents & about 2.3 million injured -- at least according to a simple search of the Internet. So, if your point is to prove that the number of auto accidents was higher in 2023 in the entire US than the number of criminal deaths & injuries in 2023, these numbers would confirm that.
@@rogerforsberg3910 Thank you for the statistics. If you live in a vehicle-dominated area, you'd be well advised to value your safety as well. 🧐
I ought to know. I grew up in suburbia, and it's a miracle that I got out of there alive. Why? Because I was much too bold & fearless as a cyclist. In fact, one time, a car knocked me & my bike over! 🤕
Actually, this was my point: I live in one of the very few places in the U.S. where living without a car is easy. Therefore, I'm not endangered by driving/riding in a vehicle.
Americans can be so fearful about crime, yet fearless about vehicular danger. 🧐
When you think of Chicago these days unfortunately you think of rampant crime, murder, and sky high property taxes. Sad but true. A once great city.
"...rampant crime, murder..."
Dude, I live in Chicago, and I'm probably safer than 95% of Americans. Why? Because I live in a good neighborhood, and I live without a car. Last year, how many Americans were injured/killed in vehicular accidents? 🧐🤔🤨
"...sky high property taxes."
Chicago's property-tax rates are often lower/much lower than suburbia's. Here's a quote that I found:
"The suburbs surrounding Chicago have much higher rates on average, varying between 9.938% and 13.068% [vs. 6.697 for Chicago]."
Also, every year, not owning a vehicle saves a fortune. Where you live, is living without a vehicle easy (like it is in Chicago), or even possible? 🤔🤨
"A once great city."
Dude, don't be ignorant.🙄🙄 Do you have any idea what Chicago was like 30, 40, or 50 years ago? 🧐 Those were not the "good ol' days." 🙄🙄
Fix the crime problem if you don't want people to leave.
No worries the mayor will give us candy bars to sell so we can eat
Guess who picks up the lost taxes paid from the people smart enough to move?
You
Poor black people?
Pretend like suburban taxes aren’t just as high on average.
John Bon Jovi?
@@ernst91no, but outta the kindness of my heart, i'll give ya 2 more guesses...def.not jeffrey dahmer....
I noticed over the past month that a lot of that more affordable housing in Houston has been built on flood plains. I know a lot of people that moved to Texas and Georgia and they seem to have different problems than the ones they had here, and some of those issues are not an improvement. While they have a lower cost of living they are also making less money in income, so what they can afford is about the same they're just living in a warmer climate.
Talking about Houston and they show a shot of Dallas SMFH
Not much different. Bland lame cities
Maybe they should improve public safety and lower taxes
Well they vote for Democrats and Democrats are not interested in those things😂
Chicago - you don't have to have a car to live here unlike any city in Texas...so THERE!!!!
Houston is much more dangerous then Chicago. Crime is insane there. In one year, my company had 32 rental cars broken into at restaurants and hotels. 32 is an insane number..... and that is happening in an upper end area. Tolls are outrageous. It floods every time it rains. Let people go there and see what Texas is really like..... the food is pretty bad and there is no service in restaurants. You have to yell to get a bill given to you..... the no one cares state. Horrible place to be.
I thought most Houston residents were armed to protect their families
It’s not more dangerous but they are similar in crime. Chicago is more focused on just like New York and L.A. because they are considered the big 3. And it gets also a lot of attention because it’s a blue city in a blue state.
In Houston, MOD Pizza is considered their best pizza restaurant.
Wtf? Shitcago is a cesspool of jobless hoodlums.
@@MrRibby88lol, tragic if true
People with money are leaving
That's hilarious. They showed Dallas's skyline instead of Houston's skyline. Dip is population is understandable. Texas has tax and weather advantages. Lots of shootings in Chicago too.
Even though Houston has more guns per capita and open carry?
Houston is garbage. The traffic is AWFUL. The summers are unbearable. But people like to keep money in their pocket. plain and simple. And Houston doesn't protect the lawless like Chicago does in some utopian fantasy.
(0:59) That's Dallas-duh! 🙄🙄
Your photo looks like Dallas, Texas. Reunion Plaza?
Y'all hush up, they're trying to convince Chicago residents to move towards Dallas instead of Houston.
Y’all fucking better vote red
I can't, for the life of me, figure out why anyone would want to leave Chicago- look at how safe and affordable it is to live there.
And the roads still suck!
Houston is growing because there's much more immigrants, and they have more kids
Whenever I drive through the urban neighborhoods of Chicago and see so many people on street corners I wonder if anyone actually works.
Been to Houston, I'll take Chicago. I If I moved to TX, I would live in Dallas-Ft.Worth before Houston.
North Dallas is a great place to live
I too would prefer the Dallas-Ft. Worth area over Houston but more towards the Las Colinas area of Irving. If I had to live close to Houston, I’ll take The Woodlands.
@@Cerby1979the woodlands is awesome. Tons of opportunities!
Texas skyline shot was Dallas, not Houston
I wish the traffic reflected that lie, how has it gotten worse then?
Public transit sucks, people would rather drive.
Chicago is likely being miscounted. Last decade, the Census kept saying the city was losing population but the official count in 2020 showed the city had actually gained about 50k residents since 2010. These are just estimates. The 2030 Census may show that the estimates were wrong. We know that the Census was not counting nursing homes residents, which Chicago has thousands living in them.
Less people doesn’t mean poorer they are only worried because if they don’t have a big workforce the rich can’t get richer indefinitely
That is only for the municipal boundary. The Chicago metro area still has 2 million more people than the Houston metro area, which can be an even more important metric when trying to understand the actual population and impact on economy.
Ridiculous. You’re talking about Houston and showing Dallas.
I hope all those who moved to Houston are enjoying life without electricity. Been there it is an utterly is a horrible city and the summer humidity can make a person long for a Chicago winter
Trust me. Americans aren't begging for Chicago winters. That's a myth
I’ve lived there and grew up in Chicago. I’d prefer Houston climate any day
@@johngoldsworthy7135 to each his own
@@highlymedicated2438 The average winter here is waaaaaay easier now. Back in the 1970s, the media was-quite literally-wondering if a new Ice Age was approaching! 🙄 Of course, as time goes by, Americans become less tolerant of cold.
@@JdeC1994 Yeah I agree that it's less brutal than it used to be but at the same time americans seem to be weaker too
I’m sure the people left will do a great job supporting the city
They are all moving to Detroit.
Chicago is 234 square miles and dense...Houston is 671 square miles and has zero density.
The number of people per housing unit is shrinking so the overall population is lower, while apartment vacancies and house for sale are still low. More housing units are needed just to maintain the population level.
Yeah but Houston under water
You can't have nice things around " them".
"Them" being motorists I presume, which I totally agree. Chicago drivers have no respect for traffic laws or personal property.
Dude at the end of this Report was PAID!
Nah. Chicago is superior; nobody is leaving it like that, especially for the sh**hole of Texas.
^ Least unhinged Chicago hater
Govner Prtiker of course says - "Nobody is leaving". ??? LOL. I would definitely leave Illinois if I could. I have long time relatives that have already gone to Kentuckey and Tennsee.
Not one mention of the taxes. Or that property tax is the highest in the county - must be that world class safety the city offers
Incompetent leadership
While Toronto grows uncontrollably, Chicago shrinks. What happened here?
I'll take the SOMETIMES brutally cold winters of Chicago over the ALWAYS hot & humid summers of Houston. I also prefer blizzards over tornados. Although that's a bit unfair of me to say because I've never been in a tornado before. I've been through my share of blizzards though.
I love Chicago. Love it! But high taxes, crime, and political incompetence is no way to grow a city.
Why do they keep showing Dallas 😂
The last person says he loves how walkable Chicago is. But it's also very runnable!
Particularly when you're being chased by a mugger.
Bro I was raised in Chicago muggers are in every state bro lol
Ha, ha! 🙄🙄 Dude, I've lived in Chicago for 34 years without a car, and I've never been chased by a mugger. 🙄🙄
As opposed to what? 🤔🤨 Living in a vehicle-dominated area (like 95% of the U.S.)? 🤔🤨 Yeah, AS IF nothing bad happens on roads! 🙄🙄
In 2023, Chicago population’s was estimated to be 2,664,452. 2,664,452 - 8,200 = 2,656,252, which still puts us above Houston, which has a population of 2,314,157.
I live in Arizona and there is a lot of people from Chicago here.
Also, as an LGBT person I feel safer in Illinois than Texas. And because I can’t drive due to a disability, I’m not decamping to car-centric Houston anytime soon.
*Why would people stay? High taxes, high crime, poor job opportunities, cold weather.*
Bring on the migrants! 30k leave the state, Texas ships us 30k migrants, coincidence 🤔???!!
People are leaving Chicago due to high taxes, lack of good jobs, and weather. Many people are moving to Florida or Texas for better quality of life.
Lower the taxes and fix the crime and MAYBE people will stay. I’ve been thinking about moving out of Illinois for quite some time.
Funny I visited Houston and all the people who lived there said they hate it.
Can't believe people would even think of leaving CHICONGO!
"Status, as third largest city?" What? I can remember, when Chicago was the Second largest city.
Los Angeles has TWICE the land size that Chicago has. If you shrank L.A. to Chicago's size, Chicago would still be-easily-the Second City.
Rent and housing cost will drop with a lower population. Supply and demand. Increase supply = lower prices.
What that 1-4 map doesn't show you is that L.A. has TWICE Chicago's land size, and Houston has almost THREE TIMES more! 🧐If you shrank L.A. to Chicago's size, Chicago would still be-easily-the Second City.🧐
Maybe chicago and illinois governments need to stop being asses to the citizens, and bonus points if they actually punish crime, maybe then people will want to stay
While it may happen, this has been projected since at least 2010 ...
The population of Chicago has shrunk by 10% since 2010.
@@jameshorton3692 You are wrong.
Chicago is 227 square miles while Houston is 665 square miles. Demographers who actually compile the numbers for the Census always laugh at these clickbait news stories. NBC is usually a conservative group post instead of speaking to demographers who would laugh at such a story sayin a city could make up a 340k gap in a decade. They laughed at the 2015 story by Reuturs as well.
@@jameshorton3692 WRONG! 🙄🙄
Chicago, 2010 population: 2,695,598.
Chicago, 2020 population: 2,746,388.
Chicago, 2022 population (est.): 2,665,039.
Get your facts straight! 🙄🙄
@@JdeC1994 i think he meant Illinois, not Chicago
Only 12 counties in all of IL didnt lose population last year.
Here’s an idea Chicago. Enforce crime and put criminals in jail. Btw, I was born and raised in Chicago. I haven’t even visited in 8 years.
"Could overtake the Windy City" when? 🧐🤨 Last I checked, Chicago still has 362k more than Houston (despite Houston having almost TRIPLE the land size). 🧐🤨
Early 2030s
It's too damn cold in Chicago😂
Cold, black, libiotic, depressing.
I actually felt this years winter was the warmest it’s ever been. We really didn’t experience cold weather like we did back in the 80-90’s. So no, it’s not no where near damn cold 😊
@@starventure Up tight ethnic whites
People in Chicago, you gotta change how you vote.
I am absolutely okay with that. Fewer people = Less competition for parking, housing, schools, etc. That will make everything cheaper. Fewer tax dollars are fine, as we can reduce our current spending.
Look at Pritzker all in denial
Plus side, home prices there are pretty cheap
Yeah, the city population may be down, but the Metropolitan Area is a lot bigger than Houstans.
Not that much bigger. 🧐
Greater Chicago: 9.2 million.
Greater Houston: 7.5 million.
Run for the hills!
Wonder why 🤔
I'm surprised Dallas & Houston haven't taken over
Houston is a flat, swampy, boiling hot, steaming sauna 2/3 of the year. With regular hurricanes and storms and floods thrown in. Nature is vicious here… trying to keep nature from eating your house is a constant battle.
No mountains, no great rivers. The coast is an hour’s drive away and lined with chemical factories. The ocean water is muddy and oily brown. (The oil is natural… a lot of the oil fields offshore naturally leak.) The architecture is pretty boring.
The infrastructure is slapdash and poorly planned. There is no zoning, so you have industrial facilities and random sky scrapers plonked down in the middle of neighborhoods. It’s not much to look at. What city art we do have tends to be rather bizarre folk art. But, hey, I really quite enjoy the charm of the annual art car parade and the random giant presidential busts.
But… we have quite a good art scene. Not as good as Chicago’s, but quite good. You can get full season tickets to decent seats at the symphony for $1000 and the opera for $300. The arts are nearly entirely funded by people who made their fortunes here and wish to give back to the city.
We have the largest medical treatment district in the world. M D Anderson cancer center alone (ranked #1 or #2 in the world) is the size of a college campus. But we also have excellent heart treatment centers, neurology centers… pretty much any medical specialty you can think of. Huge numbers of people come for treatment here. The medical imaging centers are humming 24/7.
You can get food from anywhere in the world. You can vote in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Hmong, or Mandarin. There are three chinatowns. We have hindu and buddhist temples and mosques. There is a big Nowruz celebration some years. We just had our annual Polish festival. In Southwest Houston you can see indians doing yoga in the parks. There are large swaths of the city that are just completely ethnically scrambled, and nobody even really thinks to comment on it, it is so normal. When the George Floyd protests were going out of control in large cities around the country… I believe in Houston that we had one cell phone store’s windows broken. For the most part the police marched with the protesters, there some speeches, that was it.
Everyone is too busy getting stuff done to bother with idiocy like ethnic strife. Yes, some of the busy people are busy criminals, but what do you expect? People are pouring in here from all over because it’s cheap and not very regulated. It’s a place where people come to work hard, not for the scenery.
If you are expecting a highbrow East-coast experience… this is not the city for you.
Does Chicago include Chicagoland, or just Chicago straightup?
They were comparing cities, not metropolitan areas.
Depends, often people don’t say Chicago area.
Gotta save that congressional seat! Lol
I've lived in Houston Texas from 2000 to 2004 and for me it was the devils butthole ! Weather sucks , jobs pay crap ,food is terrible, everything is far and your car gets destroyed by that sun and heat .. you couldn't pay me to live in Houston
All the Jobs are GONE!
Started in 2000 when China joined the WTO.
I've been here for almost 40 years.
I've seen the best of times now the worst!!!
I hope to move to the Chicago area
Na u don’t want too it’s ghetto
Walkable?maybe with a bulletproof vest...
Voting Blue no matter who has it's consequences
Cheap Home Chicago
It just shows how voting in one terrible mayor after another can destroy a city.
Raleigh Durham where I live is growing steadily
No it's the people with money who can afford to move