How soon will Houston pass Chicago?

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Houston is 2.2 million people in 627 sq. miles in a 10,000 sq mile metro with 6.22 million people.

Chicago is 2.7 million people in 234 sq. miles in a 10,000 sq mile metro of 9.5 million people.

Keep dreaming, Houston.

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I'll believe it when I see it. 

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What is wrong with you? Chicago shall always be the Second City.

God no.

I'll believe it when I see it. 

You'll see it in a few years then.

Houston is a up and coming city. Chicago is a stagnant one at best.

In 20 years if growth rates are constant (they wont be)

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Houston is 2.2 million people in 627 sq. miles in a 10,000 sq mile metro with 6.22 million people.

Chicago is 2.7 million people in 234 sq. miles in a 10,000 sq mile metro of 9.5 million people.

Keep dreaming, Houston.

Mumbai actually has less area than Chicago and 12.5 million people. Now that's a dense city.

Chicago could easily have like 4 or 5 million in its city limits and still be roomy enough for most Americans. 

But Madeleine is right... Chicago is an oak...Houston is a mushroom...

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Okay..so you must have an ex or you lost a job in Chicago.

I've been to cities around the world and Chicago is just fine.  What's wrong with it?  Don't say crime.  Houston is no paragon of virtue.

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What is wrong with you? Chicago shall always be the Second City.

Not at least since some time in the 1980s...

Population has nothing to do with it.

Is Chicago America's second most important or influential city?

Los Angeles is an amalgamation of suburbs that doesn't have much of a center.  Chicago is the only city outside of NY with a skyline that at all approximates Manhattan.

Since Los Angeles is a decentralized suburban agglomeration it is more like Tokyo in character.  And people love to point out that there is no "Tokyo" the way there is a NYC or Chicago.



Neither LA nor Houston have anything approximating the Chicago skyline...but then LA may one day surpass NYC in metro pop.  Will NYC then be Americas 2nd city?

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Metro population is one of the most relevant things...otherwise places like Tokyo or LA don't matter at all.

And skylines very much matter because they show density...which is of utmost importance in a city.

You have argued basically that all that matters in a city is growth and some magical "momentum" that you project decades into the future.

Basically all you have besides that is a weird love for Houston and a weird hate for Chicago.