For the Bloomington-Normal leaders who still think we are growing:
Another moving survey shows people leaving Illinois
Illinois was the No. 3 state in America for outbound moves in 2014, United Van Lines said Friday.
Earlier this week, Allied Van Lines said Illinois was No. 1 for outbound versus inbound moves in 2014, according to its moving data for the year. And Atlas Van Lines said Friday its data also show more people leaving the state than coming, with Illinois ranking second among states with the highest proportion of outbound moves.
Whatever, people sure seem to love to leave Illinois.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-illinois-outbound-moves-0103-20150102-story.html
In another couple of years I will be outbound as well.
According to the article about 2653 more households moved out of state than moved here in 2014. That’s roughly 10,000 people. There are about 12,800,000 people in the state. That means that if that report is accurate, we lost about a bit less than 1/10 of 1% of our population. Certainly something that should be considered, but not really a dash for the exits at this point.
Except it been going on for years