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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

The "rust belt" is over in reality for much of the Upper Midwest. There may still be a few cities stagnating or hung over further East like Detroit or Buffalo, but Milwaukee, Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc have all embarked on a new leg upwards in their histories. Chicago, save for the ancient rail infrastructure and landmark highrises, is virtually unrecognizable even from when I moved here 10 years ago. I was just driving down Belmont over by Schuba's and was like "wtf, where am I". That area used to be mostly vacant lots and Schuba's was the only place around. Now it's wall to wall 3-4 floor buildings and Schuba's has built an absolutely dank modern addition on to the South.



I mean just from a law of large numbers perspective, what percentage of the population is Millenial? If 250,000 African Americans have left, odds are about a quarter of them fell into that age range meaning that's probably another 50-60k Millenials Chicago would have but no longer does. I have a feeling that of that 250,000 exodus, it's probably skewed heavily younger as people want to GTFO while they still can. You probably have a lot of grannies living in the house they grew up in who are left behind.

According to the 2016 5-year US Census ACS, Chicago has 703,277 Millennials. So you and The Urban Politician might be right.