Strangely, Chicago’s population increased to 2,714,856 in 2012 from 2,695,598 in the 2010 census.
Young people are moving back to the downtown area. We’ll see if they can survive the taxes.
I think surviving the taxes might be the least of their worries. They need to survive the blazing guns.
There are or were some very beautiful residential highrises dotting the Lake Michigan waterfront. I can see why it might be tempting to young singles. I thought about it myself in the nineties, being in the printing and direct marketing business with the Chicago metro being something of a mecca for that at the time. It’s coming apart now, though. Pity. It was a pretty city, north of the forties at least. It won’t be taxation that runs them off so long as they’re paid enough to cover their bills, they’re sort of stupid that way with stars in their eyes about big city living, it’ll be street crime.
That “increase” is so minimal, it’s almost irrelevent.
Chicago is a sanctuary city.
See too, if they survive too many flash mob attacks. There are reports that the gangs are coming up out of the south side and the west side, and doing flash mob attacks on Michigan Avenue and the Near North Side areas. This is a wealthy area of Chicago.
And it’s not just Chicago. The gangs appear to be getting bolder, and more willing to come out of the ghetto and do what they do.