It's no news that Chicago (and Illinois) are losing population. But what doesn't get much attention is who is being lost:
The nation’s top high-tech talent.
That makes Chicago's population loss all that more significant. Because these high-tech innovators are job creator.
The bad news was found in a Brookings study as reported in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The study hailed the five biggest gainers, but then threw in the five biggest losers, of which Chicago was the worst.
