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Lake County, Chicago Make Forbes Most Miserable Cities List

Forbes ranked Chicago at number four and Lake County at number nine on its list of the 2013 Most Miserable Cities.

Lake County has made the 2013 Forbes list of America's Most Miserable Cities, coming in at number nine on the list, according to Forbes list. 

Reasons for the ranking: while the county is one of the richest in the country, home prices are down 29 percent; and the area experiences long commutes and bad weather, according to the Forbes list. 

Forbes ranked Chicago at number four on its list of most miserable cities and cited a decrease in home prices, long commutes, high foreclosure rates, lousy winters and high migration rate, with 107,000 leaving the city in the past five years, according the Forbes article. 

Forbest looked at the 200 largest metro area to determine its list and chose the most miserable cities based on some of these factors: unemployment, foreclosures, taxes, violent crime, home prices, weather, commute times and net migration.

Read more on Forbes.com.

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