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« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2015, 09:08:10 PM »
« edited: June 24, 2015, 09:16:02 PM by Snowguy716 »
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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« Reply #26 on: June 24, 2015, 09:21:32 PM »
Quote from: nclib on June 24, 2015, 06:46:50 PM
The population rankings are becoming deceptive. Chicago is far more a city than Houston ever will be; the only reason Houston may pass Chicago is the annexation of suburban areas. If Chicago annexed suburban areas in order to be the same area as Houston, or Houston decreased its area to be entirely urban and the same sq. miles as Chicago, both ways would have Chicago with a higher population than Houston.
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« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2015, 02:15:53 AM »
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 23, 2015, 09:57:19 AM
What is wrong with you? Chicago shall always be the Second City.


Not at least since some time in the 1980s...
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« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2015, 01:42:03 PM »
Quote from: Citizen Hats on June 28, 2015, 02:15:53 AM
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 23, 2015, 09:57:19 AM
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.
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« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2015, 02:16:06 PM »
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 28, 2015, 01:42:03 PM
Quote from: Citizen Hats on June 28, 2015, 02:15:53 AM
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 23, 2015, 09:57:19 AM
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?
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« Reply #30 on: June 28, 2015, 03:24:38 PM »
Quote from: Citizen Hats on June 28, 2015, 02:16:06 PM
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 28, 2015, 01:42:03 PM
Quote from: Citizen Hats on June 28, 2015, 02:15:53 AM
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 23, 2015, 09:57:19 AM
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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« Reply #31 on: June 28, 2015, 04:33:48 PM »
Quote from: Snowguy716 on June 28, 2015, 03:24:38 PM
Quote from: Citizen Hats on June 28, 2015, 02:16:06 PM
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 28, 2015, 01:42:03 PM
Quote from: Citizen Hats on June 28, 2015, 02:15:53 AM
Quote from: Governor Simfan34 on June 23, 2015, 09:57:19 AM
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?

Metro pop is irrelevant when we're talking about cities.

Skylines, by the way, aren't the be all end all of everything.
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« Reply #32 on: June 28, 2015, 05:13:25 PM »
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.
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« Reply #33 on: June 28, 2015, 05:17:48 PM »
Chicago is a city. Los Angeles is a culture.
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« Reply #34 on: June 28, 2015, 06:38:13 PM »
The Second City theater started in Chicago and opened a branch in LA a while back. Perhaps if they open one in Houston it can use the second city moniker, too.
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« Reply #35 on: June 29, 2015, 11:46:33 PM »
The more important thing is to make Montgomery County, TX (Houston's northern bedroom community) more diverse like Fort Bend County, so that it stops voting like Provo or Forsyth. Also, The Woodlands needs to get over itself and incorporate, its not some tiny village anymore.

Same goes for Highlands Ranch (Douglas, CO). I'm sick of these massive cities that don't incorporate. Who do they think they're kidding?

Chicago's drop in population between last decade was unfortunate, after the gain in the 90's. But the crime rate is probably scaring people away. They're all moving to Aurora and Kendall County apparently.
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« Reply #36 on: June 30, 2015, 10:43:38 AM »
Actually, LA these days has quite an impressive skyline. It's just, well, spread out! The pic below really does not capture the full array of high rises, that are also in Hollywood, Santa Monica, Westwood and so forth. There are also nodes up around Universal City, LAX and Encino.



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« Reply #37 on: July 01, 2015, 08:44:43 PM »
Quote from: NYMillennial on June 23, 2015, 09:21:28 AM

Why? I honestly prefer Houston to Chicago.

Chicago needs to learn their place.

its* place

And no, it doesn't.
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« Reply #38 on: July 02, 2015, 11:43:20 AM »
Chicago is just a bunch of buildings, dead cattle, and windy bluster?
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