muon2
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« on: July 20, 2017, 06:53:54 AM » |
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Thanks for the Chicagoland analysis. My observation has been that the traditional suburban growth/city existed until the onset of the Great Recession. At the point the collapse of housing prices froze many people in place throughout the metro region. By 2013 housing prices had recovered enough to allow mobility, but the economy of the region was not experiencing the economic recovery of the rest of the nation. The effect is that the population declined overall. The maps seem to back up that observation.
One piece of conventional wisdom is that the outflow from the IL collar counties this decade was in part due to moves to neighboring states driven by tax policy. That CW seems to hold up to some degree in the northern collars of Lake and McHenry compared to Kenosha. It doesn't seem to hold for the eastern edge, since the neighboring areas of IN in the CSA aren't growing.
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