Your mind is closed. Sad. You’ll fail to see what is happening all around you.
That link wasn’t about Chicago in Bush years...had you actually read it, it was citing vacancy rates above 21% for the 2nd Qtr of this year for Chicago suburbs.
That’s more than one out of every 5 buildings vacant.
Only a court jester would pretend that prices are going up when every 5th building is vacant.
You have a local cooling which was due to past overcapacity.