
The Chicago skyline, from the 41st Street Pedestrian Bridge. Photo: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images
Last year we looked at the top destinations for departing Chicagoans, many of whom left us for Denver, Dallas and Seattle.
- Anecdotally, we know four separate Chicago families who just moved to Portugal.
We're zooming in today on just the opposite: places people are leaving in order to move to Chicago, based on Realtor.com's search traffic in the fourth quarter of 2021.
🚚 The top five, according to data shared with Axios:
- Milwaukee
- Kansas City
- Seattle-Tacoma
- New York
- Washington, D.C.

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