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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ So despite our population decrease we have the most number of million dollar earners than ever.
Watch all the boomsayer bloggers and journalists like--NEVER--pick up on this little factoid.
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Of course not, or the fact that Chicago gained the most 6+ figure earners of any city except for LA and NYC since 2010 despite being hugely out gained in population in that period by nearly every city in the country
THe percent change was also higher than Los Angeles.
Journalism today mostly sucks. Chicago Tribune had a story yesterday or today about "Why is Chicago violent crime in decline?" which highlights the fact that shootings are down 32% compared to last year and homicides are down 26% compared to last year. This is great especially given a trend, but they did not talk about any other violent crime. Assaults so far this year are actually up compared to the same period in 2016 and 2017, though definitely down compared to 2010. Robberies are down. Point is - they didn't talk about anything other than shootings and homicide as if those are the only types of crime that are categorized as violent crime. This is just lazy.