This article explores home values in Cook County before and after the Great Recession. Among the high level findings is that past the height of the housing financial crisis, distressed property sales remained strong contributors of house price depreciation in neighborhoods in Cook County.

The new Detroit Economic Activity Index (DEAI) measures growth in economic activity for the city of Detroit. The index is constructed to reflect income, employment, residential and commercial real estate activity, electric customer counts, tax revenues, and port activity.