Experts Predict Huge Growth for Chicago by 2100

For the past several years, Illinois has been infamous for losing population. If a new study is accurate, that trend will turnaround completely especially for Chicago who's population is predicted to boom by the year 2100.

I saw this interesting new study just shared by 24/7 Wall St which tries to peer into the future to see which cities in America will grow the most. They say they looked at "long-range population projections from  the Global 1-km Downscaled Population Base Year and Projection Grids Based on the SSPs from the Depopulation 2100 project at the University of Illinois Chicago" along with several other metrics to decide which cities will boom and which ones will bust. Their findings show a completely different outcome for Chicago than many recent headlines suggest. They show that Chicago's population will grow from the current population of 2,762,336 residents to a whopping 3,149,990 citizens in the year 2100.

Why the big growth prediction for Chicago?

Here are the key areas where Chicago is expected to excel:

• professional
• scientific
• technical services
• finance and insurance
• transportation and warehousing
• real estate and rental and leasing
• administrative and support
• waste management services

It's the development of Chicago as something of a Midwestern tech hub that is likely to fuel the expected grown over the next 75 years. Does this mean the Cubs will be running the bases using hoverboards? Doubt it, but Chicago does look like it's built to grow. What it will really look like in the year 2100 is anyone's guess.