Democrat Control spending and taxes of Illinois forces people to vote by moving 33,000 last year

Illinois residents fleeing state for financial reasons

POSTED 9:52 PM, MAY 21, 2018, BY BEN BRADLEY, UPDATED AT 01:28PM, MAY 22, 2018

Illinois residents fleeing state for financial reasons

CHICAGO — 33,703.

That’s how many residents left Illinois last year.

People leave the state for a variety of reasons from weather to career opportunities.

But experts say Illinois’ population loss bucks national trends and is the opposite of what surrounding states are seeing.

WGN Investigates traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to catch up with Chicagoans who made the move for financial reasons. How did they know it made sense? Do they have any regrets?

You can calculate the cost of living in other cities with CNN’s Cost of Living Calculator.

WGN’s Ben Bradly reports.