The smart ones who can afford it are saying, “Adios” to Cook County’s insanely high crime rates and silly nanny-state government regulations.
Sadly, that leaves plenty more who want to move out of one of the most violent counties in the nation.
(Crains) As the Great Recession churned job prospects for many, Cook County lost about 13,000 residents with six-figure household incomes to other places, despite the widely hyped revival of downtown housing and jobs.
Between 2007 and 2011, Chicago and its immediate suburbs also ended up with about 10,000 fewer residents with a bachelor’s degree or higher, even after accounting for new arrivals, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s first attempt to track population shifts by income and education at the county level.
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