we want people to get ahead (at least, we did prior to 2008)
and if so many people in ChiTown are getting ahead as these charts indicate, Wonderful!!!!
Also, there are miles and miles of suburban communities that do not seem to be on this graphic display.... but which have grown up all around the region... and which are filled with “middle class” people......
I think this graphic is not very helpful
“Also, there are miles and miles of suburban communities that do not seem to be on this graphic display.... but which have grown up all around the region... and which are filled with “middle class” people......”
Yes, I noticed that too. Someone pointed out that middle class people in the suburbs shrink the tax base for the city, but that is a simplistic reasoning. Property taxes are paid at the county level, not the city level, and Cook County includes plenty of middle-class (and upper-class) suburbs. Also, the middle class suburbanites mostly still commute to work in the city, spend money there, and often own investment property there too.