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Declining Employment Can Only Worsen Chicago Real Estate Market

How much worse can it get? I just picked up the January employment numbers for the greater Chicago metropolitan area and the picture is getting more grim than I thought – we have hit a new 14 year low. The Chicago area has lost 162,000 jobs in just the last 12 months and a total... Read more »

By Gary Lucido,
March 19, 2010 at 7:49 pm

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