A continuation of the analysis of the current situation in Illinois by WirePoints: Fact 20 20. Illinoisans leave. Nothing captures the dysfunction of Illinois as well as the data on outmigration does. Illinoisans have been fleeing the state in search of a better environment … Continue reading
Category Archives: Moving
Look what showed up today from State Rep. David McSweeney: Illinois’ population has continued to decline as families flee from the crippling high taxes. We need to keep residents and jobs in our state, not push them out! Do you … Continue reading
Just looking at the headline of this Crain’s Chicago Business article gives a clue as to effect switching from a flat rate to a progressive income tax will have on rich people in Illinois: South Florida mansion sales surge as … Continue reading
Look what the Tax Foundation presents in its most recent email. It’s a good follow-up to yesterday’s article by the Illinois News Network. Where Did Americans Move in 2018? States compete in a variety of ways, including attracting residents, and … Continue reading
Reprinted from Illinois News Network: Moving companies say Illinois at or near top state to move from in 2018 by Cole Lauterbach Illinois remains at, or near, the top of states with the highest percentage of people leaving compared to … Continue reading
Illinois Issues has teamed up with NPR to conduct a poll with a margin of error of +/- 3.7%. Here’s the part on “Leaving Illinois:” Leaving Illinois Because of the fact that the state of Illinois lost nearly 34,000 individuals … Continue reading
The number of folks who left Illinois last year. WGN-TV did a story which includes interviews of those who have moved to Nashville. One of those who moved was one of my favorite authors, Brad Thor. “I was aiding and abetting … Continue reading
Here is a comment under an article about a man moving from Naperville from Joe Jarmusz, a man who moved to Naperville in 1985 and retired to Michigan the month after he retired at the end of last year: Why Illinois … Continue reading
A Chicago Triune editorial featured a Woodstock family who moved to Colorado: Donald Felz, a lifelong Illinoisan who retired from a utility company in 2016, says a sinking home value and taxes drove him and his wife, Debi, out of … Continue reading
With two U-Haul trucks having left Lakewood Village President Paul Serwatka’s home late last week, it certainly looks as if he is leaving Illinois. If so, he would be the second head of a local government to pull up stakes. … Continue reading
Sunday’s Chicago Tribune featured an editorial on people moving out of Illinois. Mike Madigan (not seen in image above) stands ath edge of the Red Sea as U-Hall trucks drive toward the Promised Land. The editorial makes clear that anyplace, … Continue reading
From a commenter named “Froggy the Taxpayer:” Drive throughout the county and it is clear 100m can be better spent elsewhere. Give the trajectory of taxes population and overall negative state of our county we can and must do better. … Continue reading
United Van Lines reports that Illinois is Number 2 is the ratio of people moving out versus those moving in. 63% of the loads are leaving Illinois. The income data is not the same as that provided by the U.S. … Continue reading
12-24-16 WSJ Summarizes Illinois’ Downward Spiral Illinois state’s future is spiraling downward. The following is an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal editorial explaining why: According to the Census Bureau, Illinois now leads the nation for the steepest population decline. … Continue reading
That’s what the Southern Illinois University’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute discovered. That’s just the registered voters. Might be more if those not engaged in active citizenship were included. A further finding is that 20%, specifically, “The poll also showed … Continue reading
A Friend of McHenry County Blog sent the photo you see below of a Mayflower moving van behind the empty Kmart off McCullom Lake Road & Pine Drive. … Continue reading
Illinois is not the place it used to be. In the past, people said, “If you can’t find a job in Chicago, you can’t find one anywhere.” With the better part of a half a century under Mike Madigan’s Democratic … Continue reading
The Chicago Metropolitan area lost population in 2015. The U.S. Census Bureau found 22,194 more people left the greater Chicago area than moved in. About 80,000 in and 105,000 out. That’s what the Chicago Tribune reported in its evening internet … Continue reading
The following mailing from Barrington Hills Village President Martin McLaughlin looks at the undesirability of staying in Illinois on both the general and personal levels. The address side talks of how his children have moved out of Illinois: … Continue reading