Almost eight years after the nation's housing crisis erupted in the Great Recession, about three-quarters of people in the Chicago area are skeptical that the housing crisis is over, according to the survey done by Hart Research for MacArthur. Although concerns linger nationally, Chicago-area residents are more pessimistic. Only 18 percent of people living in Chicago and 28 percent of people in the Chicago suburbs think the area has emerged from the housing crisis. Nationally, 29 percent think the nation's housing crisis has passed.