[goldstategop]

Old Man Daley is presiding over a shrinking kingdom.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[softwarecreator]

Cook, Kendall, Wayne and Cuyahoga amongst the biggest losers ... I'm sure there's a pattern here, but I wouldn't be stupid enough to voice my hypothesis in this PC world.

[Graybeard58]

Cook County lost more people between 2000 and 2005 than any county in the nation

And yet is still gaining registered voters.

[JRandomFreeper]

ACK!!! I mis-read that title to mean that my latest profession was declining....

/johnny

[Uncle Miltie]

Moving to somewhere they're allowed guns with which to defend themselves.

[Clemenza]

In keeping with earlier discussions of other urban areas, and my own experiences living in Chicago/Cook County in the late 1990s, the phenomenon is one of DINKs and SINKs buying up all the new, expensive real estate in Chicago, while lower middle class families with children (black and white) flee for farther out suburbs. In the case of many blacks, they are leaving Chicago for Atlanta, Dallas and other points south.

The good news is that 1. Chicago will lose some of its most solid Democratic voters (blacks and white union members) 2. More schools will close, meaning (hopefully) smaller property tax reassessments and 3. Maybe the Archdiocese can sell off its empty Churches and put the money to better use.

[sergeantdave]

It's too bad about Chicago. Always liked that city. When we were teenagers we'd travel down to Chicago, drive along windy Michigan Avenue and check out the females walking by. Especially those in dresses. That wind could sure blow and provide an afternoon of entertainment for a carload of teenage boys.

[Kuksool]

Crook County is losing population. It won't make IL a red state anytime soon. IL's blue sea is spreading into the red zones of IL (like my township). In the past, many Chicago folks became disgusted with the Daley Machine and moved into the suburbs. They switched from RAT to GOP.

Nowadays, Chicago folks, who move to the suburbs and exurbs, maintain their RAT allegiance. The collapse of the GOP in the Cook County suburbs and the erosion in the exurbs are why IL won't be voting for a Republican in a statewide election for a long time.

[Clemenza]

Kendall County, roughly 40 miles southwest of Chicago, recorded the nation's third-fastest percentage gain from 2004 to 2005, growing an estimated 9.4 percent, or by about 6,800 people.

Ugh. Yes a place where all the houses look the same, every place is dominated by Applebees/BedBathBeyond/WalMart, and the kids will grow up in boredom.

There are much better places to live in the Chicagoland area. Even if you don't want to live in the city, Naperville, St. Charles, Highland Park, Winnetka, etc. are better places to raise a family than the HELL that is Kendall County.

[R.W.Ratikal]

The loss of population in Cook County (Chicago) will not affect its political power. Not unless it begins to lose tombstones too!

[R.W.Ratikal]

The loss of population in Cook County (Chicago) will not affect its political power. Not unless it begins to lose tombstones too!

[Conservative Firster]

[Kuksool]

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[TASMANIANRED]

They are still all on the voter rolls.

[thoughtomator]

That's OK, they'll keep voting there anyway.