Chicago remains popular with investors, ranking 40th overall among the nation’s 100 largest cities, according to Urban Institute data. It brought in on average $20,450 per household each year between 2010 and 2020, below national leaders such as Washington, D.C., Denver, Seattle and San Francisco, but above others such as New York, Dallas, Houston and Minneapolis. Chicago saw an especially healthy level of investment in the nonresidential sector; It ranked ninth among the top 100 cities, with $8,648 per employee invested on average each year.
No one with a functioning brain will invest in the ghetto. With criminals being given a free pass, there is even less incentive to invest.
Yep, there’s always the other side of the tracks…