3/23/15
Today’s Crain’s brings this apparently-startling statistic: Indeed, just a few miles from the heart of the Loop lies a neighborhood that, despite a rich...
11/10/14
According to our server logs, YoChicago reached nearly 94,700 unique visitors in October. That’s a 10% decline from the more than 104,000 visitors we...
10/28/14
According to 2010 US Census data, 25- to 34-year olds accounted for 13.4% of the nation’s population and 17.97% of the City of Chicago’s....
10/20/14
As he often does, Joel Kotkin looks past wishful thinking to the numbers: It’s an idea echoed everywhere from “Friends” to “Girls”: Young people...
7/22/14
One of the few things you can say for certain about the Millennial Generation is that its membership is huge in number. Beyond the...
11/20/13
The term “bookends” takes on a different meaning if you’re visiting a furniture store or talking to the marketing staff at an apartment complex....
11/12/13
Several months ago The Wall Street Journal weighed in on the topic of baby boomers moving to trendy New York neighborhoods: Hip urban neighborhoods...
10/21/13
Joel Kotkin, writing at newgeography, argues that the oft-reported back-to-the-city trend among empty nesters is a myth: Perhaps no urban legend has played as...
8/15/13
According to the US Census Bureau Chicago’s population is 51.5% female. That’s higher than the statewide average of 51% despite Chicago’s elderly population (10.3%)...
7/25/13
When I was in high school, a reminder that “the light at the end of the tunnel is Jersey City” was richly ironic. Now...
3/14/13
I’ve been hearing about what I call the “mythical empty-nester” for more than 30 years now. At newgeography.com Wendell Cox counters an empty nester...
3/6/13
A post at The Atlantic Cities suggests a looming mismatch between the number of aging baby boomers looking to sell homes and the number...
2/20/13
The New York Times recently focused on the changes that changing demographics have wrought in some Upper West Side buildings: When the co-op conversion...
12/7/12
From newgeography.com: For all the talk of how the Great Recession has driven people — particularly the “footloose young” — toward dense urban centers,...
8/7/12
Advocates of the proposition that dense central cities are the way of the future have a few barriers to face – facts and consumer...
6/21/12
Berwyn’s “Integrated Marketing Campaign” is in its sixth year and, according to the Berwyn Development Corporation: … the 2012 campaign continues to brand Berwyn...
6/12/12
Aaron Renn, who styles himself the Urbanophile, poses that question at City Journal and his answer seems to be: “In many ways it’s a...
6/11/12
The demographics of Chicago’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood have been changing rapidly. From 2000 to 2010 Garfield Ridge lost nearly 20% of its White population...
3/19/12
Five years ago today we featured a video on the paradox of Bucktown elementary schools. The paradox or, more accurately, the anomaly? Bucktown‘s population...
3/12/12
Our quote comes from Walter Russell Mead’s rumination on the Millennial generation and housing: At the end of the day, the nation’s housing stock...