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Originally Posted by sentinel
Because you've always provided hard, concrete data figures for a slew of different topics, I take your personal/anecdotal posts as being more factual than most media reporting out there. Thank you  |
Hah, thanks. I just know what I know but I do not trust the overall population numbers from Census estimates given what's going on. By the way there's random other people who have moved to Chicago recently. The EVP of ZScaler (a $2B/yr revenue tech company from San Jose) bought a mansion in Logan Square earlier this year. His various profiles online indicate he legitimately relocated to Chicago. A pretty high up exec for ZS (private company with 13,000 employees HQ'd in Evanston, also $2B/yr revenue) moved from Boston to Chicago recently and bought a mansion in Lincoln Park earlier this year. The now former CEO of Emigrant Partners, a capital company with $100B+ in AUM, moved from NYC to Chicago sometime last year and bought a mansion in Lincoln Park. Also...Kevin Compton, a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins and former part owner of the San Jose Sharks and major Notre Dame donor bought a condo at One Chicago. Though I don't think he moved, but his son actually lives in Chicago and owns a brewery company in Ravenswood (Midwest Coast). I also believe a former or current board member for a company like Uber bought there too but I'd have to look at the real estate record again.
Things are always happening and people are always moving here no matter what the media is saying. I know how places like Crains operate. They barely know anything unless someone tells them. There are companies that have hired a lot in Chicago in the last 2-3 years and you will not even find it in the news anywhere.