Immigrants bypassing Chicago area

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

A city that for more than a century served as one of the nation's prime portals for foreign immigrants has lost much of its allure.

That's the conclusion of an analysis out today that finds the decline in people moving to the metropolitan Chicago area from other countries is a large reason why Chicago's population growth has trailed almost every large city in the country since the Great Recession.

Specifically, the report by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning says that based on a review of U.S. Census data, the region's growth rate of .9 percent between 2010 and 2014 ranked 43rd of the nation's 51 metro areas with at least 1 million people—and last of the top 10. Particularly notable is that New York and Los Angeles added people nearly three and four times faster, 2.5 percent and 3.2 percent respectively.

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