More info on who is renting downtown in this article, but I found this tidbit interesting:
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Relocations—tenants moving into Chicago from another state or the suburbs—typically account for about 40% of all leases handled by Luxury Living, says Aaron Galvin, the firm’s co-founder and CEO. Luxury Living oversees leasing for about 3,000 apartments, mostly downtown, including Wolf Point East, a new 60-story tower along the Chicago River.
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That’s also about when Galvin started to notice a shift in the market—a pickup in leases with out-of-state renters. So far this year, relocations have accounted for about half of Luxury Living’s leases—up from 40% in prior years—with people from outside Illinois representing 35% and suburban relocations representing 15%, he says. Last year, renters moving into the city from the Chicago suburbs accounted for about 25 percent of the total.
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https://www.chicagobusiness.com/comm...ong-post-covid
The noteworthy part in bold. Out of town relocations went from 40% of downtown leases in prior years, to 50% this year.
May not seem like much, but for a rapidly growing region like downtown Chicago, that's pretty significant. The profile of downtown Chicago to out of towners is growing.