200 people made the trek to Bisnow’s Flight to the Suburbs event at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center to hear what our panel of experts had to say about the leasing and investment landscape in the burbs. What they learned: the numbers don’t tell the true strength of the market.

Our leasing panel (NAI Hiffman EVP Jim Adler, Choose DuPage CEO John Carpenter, Hamilton Partners partner Dave Andrews and JLL SVP Norm Murdoch) agreed there’s more to the narrative of companies fleeing the suburbs for downtown Chicago than what you read in the media. In fact, it’s stronger than it’s been in years and companies like HSBC, Citibank, Paylocity and Zurich North America all recommitted to suburban HQs.

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