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Wow, I didnt realize babies were the root cause for all the new homes, shopping centers, places of business, etc, etc. Kid yourself not, Chicagoland is pushing westward, northwesterly and southwesterly at an alarming pace. You dont see cities jump from 40K to 150K in 10 years by babies being born.
Oh come on. Using your logic, you can look at a wealthy suburb of Chicago and then decree that there must not be any poor neighborhoods in the rest of the area because of the anecdotal wealthy suburb you've seen.
Those stats I gave are for entire MSAs and not individual cities. Certain cities in MSAs continue to grow even while others stagnate or even shrink in population. Certain suburbs of Pittsburgh and Cleveland are also growing while the MSAs as a whole are getting smaller. Likewise, not every town in a fast-growing MSA is growing (look at College Park GA). Surely you can understand that. There's no need to be as sensitive as our friends from Omaha anytime someone shows statistics which show that Chicago isn't what some pretend it is.
? It grew by half a million people in the past 6 years, how is that not growth? Numbers are numbers.
The counties to the west/south in the metro area grew from 896,000 in 1990 to 1,220,000 in 2000 to 1,585,000 in 2007. That's 77% growth. There's a ton of construction there, and the area is growing extremely rapidly, kinda "crazy". Just because established areas in the central parts of the metro aren't growing, the Chicago area is still seeing a huge amount of growth.
Not as much as many other areas in the sunbelt!!!
I just put the top 10 numbers down and Chicago was on the list. It is what it is. No one said Atlanta/Phoenix/Dallas, etc aren't growing much faster, everyone knows that.
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