WHY isn't Chicago more high profile? (Virginia, Ohio: schools, architecture, cars)

[Lookout Kid]

In my field (architecture) Chicago is still a big deal. In architectural education, the first Americans you learn about are ALL Chicago-based. The only significant American contributions to architecture from the birth of our nation until the modern period were in Chicago. Until modernism came around, New York was largely a copier of traditional European styles. This changed after WWII, however, and now New York is clearly the leader of architectural innovation in the United States. Chicago went toe-to-toe with New York because of post-war modernist heroes like Mies and SOM, but both firms peaked in the 1970s (and Mies died)--and New York is the current architectural capital in terms of new projects. But even though Chicago's architectural star has faded a bit, we are ALWAYS on the radar because of our past greatness. And we get a larger share of the architectural spotlight than the actual quality of work we are producing.

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[Trimac20]

I guess it is more from an international perspective and a media perspective. As posters have mentioned it is still quite overshadowed by NYC, LA and glamorous locales like Miami and Vegas. In Vegas you have Las Vegas, C.S.I. and others; in Chicago, only E.R. (of the shows we get here in Australia). Chicago is of course big within the USA, but let me tell you, it is far from a New York, LA, London or Paris. I'm not saying that's what it should aspire to, but more perplexed how it's been shuffled down the list of high profile US cities. I reckoned because it was so heartland American, it's finance etc was more intra-US; not sure if it's a big trade centre like NYC but in terms of world cities of comparable size like Hong Kong it's still a long way down the list.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I guess it is more from an international perspective and a media perspective. As posters have mentioned it is still quite overshadowed by NYC, LA and glamorous locales like Miami and Vegas. In Vegas you have Las Vegas, C.S.I. and others; in Chicago, only E.R. (of the shows we get here in Australia). Chicago is of course big within the USA, but let me tell you, it is far from a New York, LA, London or Paris. I'm not saying that's what it should aspire to, but more perplexed how it's been shuffled down the list of high profile US cities. I reckoned because it was so heartland American, it's finance etc was more intra-US; not sure if it's a big trade centre like NYC but in terms of world cities of comparable size like Hong Kong it's still a long way down the list.

What "list"? Chicago is a big player in international economics--particularly futures and mutual funds. The fact that you personally are unfamiliar with this aspect of Chicago doesn't mean anything. I'll bet you personally deal with several Chicago companies every day without realizing it.

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[via chicago]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

not sure if it's a big trade centre like NYC but in terms of world cities of comparable size like Hong Kong it's still a long way down the list.

Are you kidding? Hong Kong has a population of almost 7 million people. Chicago is less than 3.

With that said, Chicago holds its own in the international arena just fine

[TheLordYourGod]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I guess it is more from an international perspective and a media perspective. As posters have mentioned it is still quite overshadowed by NYC, LA and glamorous locales like Miami and Vegas. In Vegas you have Las Vegas, C.S.I. and others; in Chicago, only E.R. (of the shows we get here in Australia). Chicago is of course big within the USA, but let me tell you, it is far from a New York, LA, London or Paris. I'm not saying that's what it should aspire to, but more perplexed how it's been shuffled down the list of high profile US cities. I reckoned because it was so heartland American, it's finance etc was more intra-US; not sure if it's a big trade centre like NYC but in terms of world cities of comparable size like Hong Kong it's still a long way down the list.

A long way down the list? As a finance center?

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[At1WithNature]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I guess it is more from an international perspective and a media perspective. As posters have mentioned it is still quite overshadowed by NYC, LA and glamorous locales like Miami and Vegas. In Vegas you have Las Vegas, C.S.I. and others; in Chicago, only E.R. (of the shows we get here in Australia). Chicago is of course big within the USA, but let me tell you, it is far from a New York, LA, London or Paris. I'm not saying that's what it should aspire to, but more perplexed how it's been shuffled down the list of high profile US cities. I reckoned because it was so heartland American, it's finance etc was more intra-US; not sure if it's a big trade centre like NYC but in terms of world cities of comparable size like Hong Kong it's still a long way down the list.

For someone who is so quick to dismiss Chicago, why are you so fixated on it?

[RichMonk]

Yeah, Chicago is more about the power you don't always notice. For example, the University of Chicago School of Economics was able to establish its market theory in Chile, Poland, Russia, China, and in USA's Republican and Democratic Parties. However, that prestige is failing as economies affected by Chicago School theories deal with massive crippling debt.

[Damage Control Freak]

Originally Posted by At1WithNature

For someone who is so quick to dismiss Chicago, why are you so fixated on it?

Relax, what he's saying is not different from what many others said before. If you ask someone from Europe what his favorite US city is or where he'd like to go to for a vacation you'll probably hear NYC, LA, Vegas, Miami etc. but rarely Chicago.
Obviously, Chicago is a great city anyway, so who cares.
Except maybe the overseas dept of the tourism bureau.

[hamiltonra25]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I guess it is more from an international perspective and a media perspective. As posters have mentioned it is still quite overshadowed by NYC, LA and glamorous locales like Miami and Vegas. In Vegas you have Las Vegas, C.S.I. and others; in Chicago, only E.R. (of the shows we get here in Australia). Chicago is of course big within the USA, but let me tell you, it is far from a New York, LA, London or Paris. I'm not saying that's what it should aspire to, but more perplexed how it's been shuffled down the list of high profile US cities. I reckoned because it was so heartland American, it's finance etc was more intra-US; not sure if it's a big trade centre like NYC but in terms of world cities of comparable size like Hong Kong it's still a long way down the list.

Chicago isnt popular because we do not have palm trees, or nice weather year round. Chicago is a HUGE finance centre. It might not be as well known as Wall St, but there is a ton of business that happens just in the CME...CBOE...options, and futures, call Chicago home. Not wall st.