The Windy Onion ranks 7th among American cities in a rating by college-educated 25- to 34-year-olds of places they’d like to live, though to read the commercial for Chicago in today’s Tribune, you’d think we were first. No real questioning of why cities like San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle rank ahead of Chicago (New York is still number one, by the way), just a collective pat on the back for our city after the results of the survey, commissioned by CEOs for Cities and conducted by The Segmentation Co., were released.
Chicago does score tops in one category: the fastest growth of young people living in the heart of the city. According to a 2005 CEOs for Cities report, residents aged 25 to 34 are about 79 percent more likely than the average resident to live within three miles of the city center.