Where do you see Chicago in 2030?

[Vlajos]

I found this very interesting as well. This is real per capita income growth from 2000-2009 (Chicago is top 10), the most recent I can find.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/...opolitan-areas

Metropolitan Area: Per Capita Income[RIGHT]
[/RIGHT]
Metropolitan Areas Covered by Metropolitan Consumer Price IndexesInflation Adjusted[RIGHT]




[/RIGHT]
RankMetropolitan Area[RIGHT]2000 in 2009$
2009
Change[/RIGHT]
1Baltimore[RIGHT]$ 43,729
$ 47,962
9.7%[/RIGHT]
2Pittsburgh[RIGHT]$ 39,024
$ 42,216
8.2%[/RIGHT]
3Washington[RIGHT]$ 53,753
$ 56,442
5.0%[/RIGHT]
4Philadelphia[RIGHT]$ 43,572
$ 45,565
4.6%[/RIGHT]
5St. Louis[RIGHT]$ 38,636
$ 40,342
4.4%[/RIGHT]
6Milwaukee[RIGHT]$ 40,028
$ 41,696
4.2%[/RIGHT]
7Los Angeles[RIGHT]$ 41,382
$ 42,818
3.5%[/RIGHT]
8Houston[RIGHT]$ 42,232
$ 43,568
3.2%[/RIGHT]
9Cleveland[RIGHT]$ 38,396
$ 39,348
2.5%[/RIGHT]
10Chicago[RIGHT]$ 42,761
$ 43,727
2.3%[/RIGHT]
11Phoenix[RIGHT]$ 33,594
$ 34,282
2.0%[/RIGHT]
12San Diego[RIGHT]$ 44,812
$ 45,630
1.8%[/RIGHT]
13Kansas City[RIGHT]$ 39,020
$ 39,619
1.5%[/RIGHT]
14New York[RIGHT]$ 51,638
$ 52,375
1.4%[/RIGHT]
15Cincinnati[RIGHT]$ 37,852
$ 38,168
0.8%[/RIGHT]
16Seattle[RIGHT]$ 48,651
$ 48,976
0.7%[/RIGHT]
17Boston[RIGHT]$ 53,396
$ 53,713
0.6%[/RIGHT]
18Minneapolis-St. Paul[RIGHT]$ 45,690
$ 45,750
0.1%[/RIGHT]
19Denver[RIGHT]$ 46,205
$ 45,982
-0.5%[/RIGHT]
20Miami-West Pallm Beach[RIGHT]$ 41,937
$ 41,352
-1.4%[/RIGHT]
21Riverside-San Bernardino[RIGHT]$ 30,600
$ 29,930
-2.2%[/RIGHT]
22Portland[RIGHT]$ 39,703
$ 38,728
-2.5%[/RIGHT]
23Tampa-St. Petersburg[RIGHT]$ 38,048
$ 36,780
-3.3%[/RIGHT]
24San Francico[RIGHT]$ 61,831
$ 59,696
-3.5%[/RIGHT]
25Dallas-Fort Worth[RIGHT]$ 41,575
$ 39,514
-5.0%[/RIGHT]
26Detroit[RIGHT]$ 40,412
$ 37,541
-7.1%[/RIGHT]
27Atlanta[RIGHT]$ 39,775
$ 36,482
-8.3%[/RIGHT]
28San Jose[RIGHT]$ 68,185
$ 55,404
-18.7%[/RIGHT]
Unweighted Average[RIGHT]$ 43,801
$ 43,700
-0.2%[/RIGHT]

[NaturalARMO]

Chicago will pull though but it will always be plagued by black on black killings and corruption in city politics.

[monksy]

Originally Posted by DxC_17

Will the city's economy shrink and lose its reputation as a major financial center in North America? Or the opposite?

Will the city's population decline again, or continue to make minor growth like it has in the past couple of years?



What do you think?

Given the amount of infrastructure and history that Chicago has I have my doubts that it'll be replaced anytime soon. The city supports quite a lot a of people. You have trains, very good buses (compared to other places), decent roads, and planes. You can go anywhere in the world from ORD. As far as the trains go, its the biggest connector going North, South, East and West in the US.

The two things that Chicago can't take for granted: 1. People wanting to live there and move there and 2. the infrastructure.

A lot of cities [including my "home city" as of right now Charlotte] are building new things but they aren't being adopted by the residents.

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by chet everett

Is 3.5% growth of Michigan double the 1.4% of Illinois? Oh, right it 2.5x . Yeah who gets hurt when you throw around facts

They're both small. If one state grew at 1% and another grew at 0.1%, you might say that the first state was growing 10 times as fast but basically neither state is growing. Statistics are tricky :-)