Cook County in Decline

The Illinois Policy Institute reports:

Cook County is the largest county in Illinois,
with a population of 5,294,664 (41% of
Illinois’s 12,901,563 residents). However,
between April 2000 and July 2008, its
population declined at a rate of -1.5%, while
the rest of Illinois grew by 3.9%. Why is
everyone leaving?

You'll want to read this one. The crooks who run the county aren't good for business or population growth. Here's some disturbing history.