Chicago - Change The Metrics, Change The Narrative

Great things are happening in the Windy City. You just have to look under the hood to see it.

Vintage apartment buildings in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood. Source: gettyimages.com

Quick – what’s an easy metric that most people use to assess the health of a community? For most urbanists it’s simple: population change. If a place is steadily gaining population for some period of time, it’s taken for granted that things are going well for that…