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View Poll Results: Do you consider Northwest Indiana a part of Chicagoland?
Yes 45 72.58%
No 16 25.81%
Other - please explain 1 1.61%
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-15-2013, 07:16 PM
 
Location: the Great Lakes states
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Growing up in northwest Indiana, I knew much more about Chicago news than Indiana news. I rooted for Chicago sports teams, not teams from Indianapolis. I grew up watching Chicago TV. When we went to a zoo, a museum, or a concert, those in Chicago were the easiest to reach. When we went to an airport, we flew out of Midway or O'Hare. From our lakefront, we could see the Chicago skyline better than you can see it from Highland Park, and we could get to the center of Chicago as fast as anyone from Evanston. For work as well as play, many of us commute to Chicago daily. In other words, we are a part of Chicagoland. Even though there is an arbitrary line drawn on a map which puts us in a different state, we are as much a part of the Chicago community as anyone from the Illinois suburbs...and most of us are happy to be a part of that community.
This really says it all. However, I also agree with the poster who discussed the isolationist mentality and exurban characteristics in some areas of NWI, like Valpo. That is true. However, Chicago is still the nerve center, whether people in Valpo like it or not.
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Old 09-25-2013, 10:09 PM
 
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I think some parts qualify as part of the Chicago metro area but I wouldn't call them suburbs.
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Old 09-25-2013, 11:02 PM
 
Location: Not where you ever lived
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The only Chicago suburbs are in Cook County. This statement has absolutely nothing to do with media advertisers who call everything within 90 miles of Union Station *Chicagoland*. It also bears no relationship to the U.S. Census Bureau that declares every living being within 50 miles of the City of Chicago as part of one giant Metropolitan Statistical Area. In theory the outiers who have never set foot in Cook County or Chicago allegedly shop, play, work or go to school in the City of Chicago. The latter has more to do with contrived population density than it does with common sense.

IL has many 101 counties, many of which are ignored by the Census Bureau. Rather than lumping 3 or 4 state together, each county in every state should have its own MSA or be attached to an MSA. The Bureau reports density in the areas it creates.

It strikes me strange the second largest county in America, that is home to the third largest city in America has so little density the Census Bureau must add IN and WI counties, plus several Illinois counties to create a make believe MSA that looks good on paper. God forbid it might level the playing field. Uncle would never stand for that!
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Old 09-26-2013, 12:09 AM
 
Location: South Chicagoland
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I think some parts qualify as part of the Chicago metro area but I wouldn't call them suburbs.
Too bad you're objectively wrong. Places like Highland, Indiana are just as much suburbs as Naperville. They're closer to the city too. Period. End of discussion..
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Old 09-26-2013, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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Default There is more interconnectivity than you might think

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The only Chicago suburbs are in Cook County. This statement has absolutely nothing to do with media advertisers who call everything within 90 miles of Union Station *Chicagoland*. It also bears no relationship to the U.S. Census Bureau that declares every living being within 50 miles of the City of Chicago as part of one giant Metropolitan Statistical Area. In theory the outiers who have never set foot in Cook County or Chicago allegedly shop, play, work or go to school in the City of Chicago. The latter has more to do with contrived population density than it does with common sense.

IL has many 101 counties, many of which are ignored by the Census Bureau. Rather than lumping 3 or 4 state together, each county in every state should have its own MSA or be attached to an MSA. The Bureau reports density in the areas it creates.

It strikes me strange the second largest county in America, that is home to the third largest city in America has so little density the Census Bureau must add IN and WI counties, plus several Illinois counties to create a make believe MSA that looks good on paper. God forbid it might level the playing field. Uncle would never stand for that!
From an economical sense, the current MSA makes sense. The intermodal freight facilities in Plano or Shorewood, would not be there if it weren't for businesses inside Cook County-your suggestion for MSA border. Nor would collar counties like Lake, IN, Lake, IL, DuPage and Will have grown as much without the economic engine of Chicago and Cook Co.
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Old 09-27-2013, 01:38 AM
 
Location: South Chicagoland
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From an economical sense, the current MSA makes sense. The intermodal freight facilities in Plano or Shorewood, would not be there if it weren't for businesses inside Cook County-your suggestion for MSA border. Nor would collar counties like Lake, IN, Lake, IL, DuPage and Will have grown as much without the economic engine of Chicago and Cook Co.
It's ironic because there's only one collar county that actually touches the city. It's Lake County, Indiana..

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In theory the outiers who have never set foot in Cook County or Chicago allegedly shop, play, work or go to school in the City of Chicago.
Are you suggesting that this is common for people who live in collar counties? Um no.

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Old 10-01-2013, 11:48 AM
 
Location: City of North Las Vegas, NV
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I think some parts qualify as part of the Chicago metro area but I wouldn't call them suburbs.
Well, that's why this thread was started. As Ursa216 stated these NWI communities are just as much suburbs of Chicago as Naperville, Orland Park or Deerfield. Like it or not!
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Old 10-01-2013, 11:52 AM
 
Location: City of North Las Vegas, NV
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It's ironic because there's only one collar county that actually touches the city. It's Lake County, Indiana..



Are you suggesting that this is common for people who live in collar counties? Um no.
Agree with you

Can't believe the quote "the only Chicago suburbs are the ones in Cook County"!
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Old 10-01-2013, 12:13 PM
 
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Agree with you

Can't believe the quote "the only Chicago suburbs are the ones in Cook County"!
Yeah the "only Cook County" comment was....interesting. You know, because Hinsdale and Elmhurst certainly should not be considered Chicago suburbs! Yet, South Barrington is because it's in Cook County? Hmmmmm
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Old 10-01-2013, 11:22 PM
 
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Well, that's why this thread was started. As Ursa216 stated these NWI communities are just as much suburbs of Chicago as Naperville, Orland Park or Deerfield. Like it or not!
For metro statistic purposes they are considered part of the greater Chicago Metropolitan Area, but in terms of being actual suburbs by official title, they are not. Cook County is made up of villages and are considered officially as suburbs of Chicago. Surround Dupage, and Lake County can be considered suburbs but they are outside of Cook County which means that their courts, jails, LEO, hospital services service those specific counties.

Kenosha and Northwest Indiana may have either former Chicagoans or Suburbanites in those areas or many individuals who transit to those areas but they aren't suburbs of Chicago, they are their own cities in their own county and state like Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC or New Jersey and New York.

Proximity doesn't define what is a suburb or part of Chicago, city limits and state lines do, legally lake and porter county are under Indiana jurisdiction.

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