This morning I released the results of an economic report using BLS data looking at the economic performance of major cities in the U.S.
Chicago has had quite a year--best job market improvement among any of the large cities: unemployment rate dropping 1.7 percentage points and the employed fraction of the city's population rising more than 2% for the year. Both were tops among large cities.
The report: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/austan.goolsbee/research/chicagocompared.final.pdf
