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View Poll Results: Chicago is more like...
Philly, NYC, and Boston 139 76.80%
Indianapolis, Columbus, and Kansas City 42 23.20%
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Old 10-05-2016, 12:33 PM
 
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I am not including Great Lakes cities because it is obvious that Chicago shares more in common with the Great Lakes than anywhere else.

BUT, is Chicago more like Philly, NYC, and Boston than it is like Indianapolis, Columbus, or Kansas City? Explain your reasoning, Chicagoans!

This is a toughie!
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Old 10-05-2016, 12:55 PM
 
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If you had said Cleveland, Milwaukee and St. Louis, then it's easy, but never having set foot in KC, Indy or Columbus, I can't say for certain, but I do think that Chicago really isn't like NYC, Philly or Baltimore..
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Old 10-05-2016, 12:55 PM
 
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I am not including Great Lakes cities because it is obvious that Chicago shares more in common with the Great Lakes than anywhere else.

BUT, is Chicago more like Philly, NYC, and Boston than it is like Indianapolis, Columbus, or Kansas City? Explain your reasoning, Chicagoans!

This is a toughie!
I don't think Chicago has all that much in common with Indianapolis, Columbus, or Kansas City other than all four are located in the Midwest.
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Old 10-05-2016, 01:15 PM
 
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Aside from Milwaukee, I think Chicago is more like the Northeastern cities than any Midwestern city.
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Old 10-05-2016, 01:20 PM
 
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If you had said Cleveland, Milwaukee and St. Louis, then it's easy, but never having set foot in KC, Indy or Columbus, I can't say for certain, but I do think that Chicago really isn't like NYC, Philly or Baltimore..
For the sake of this discussion, cities in the undisputed Northeast are listed. DC and Baltimore really are their own can of worms worthy of other threads.
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Old 10-05-2016, 01:21 PM
 
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Aside from Milwaukee, I think Chicago is more like the Northeastern cities than any Midwestern city.
Milwaukee is Chicago's little brother .
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Old 10-05-2016, 02:36 PM
 
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Of course nothing is like New York. I think in terms of size, activity, and big city culture, Chicago is more like the big cities on the East Coast or other places than the cities in the Midwest. Chicago is an "alpha" world city so it shares many traits in common with other large metropolis in the world.
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Old 10-05-2016, 05:01 PM
 
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I'd go by metro area rather than city proper. Those cities have artificially high city proper populations due to consolidations and relatively low metro area populations. Going by MSA, the Twin Cities, St. Louis, and Cincinnati would be the non-Great Lakes cities that Chicago should be compared to. Going by CSA, Cincinnati is replaced with KC.
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Old 10-05-2016, 05:57 PM
 
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I'd go by metro area rather than city proper. Those cities have artificially high city proper populations due to consolidations and relatively low metro area populations. Going by MSA, the Twin Cities, St. Louis, and Cincinnati would be the non-Great Lakes cities that Chicago should be compared to. Going by CSA, Cincinnati is replaced with KC.
Philly is coterminous with its own county...

Is Columbus???
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Old 10-05-2016, 10:53 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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Philly is coterminous with its own county...

Is Columbus???
Not all counties and other general annexations are created equal though. Philadelphia, for example, has 134.1 sq miles of land. Indianapolis has 365.1 sq miles of land. For comparison's sake, New York City has 304.8 sq miles of land and Chicago has 227.3. Columbus has 217.17 sq miles of land. I was mistaken about Columbus having merged with its county, but it has annexed a great deal of land in the previous few decades.

My point was that, on paper, these cities appear larger in terms of population, but that's because they consolidated and or annexed to the point that they now include many suburban areas, and in some cases, even undeveloped areas.

Indianapolis might have 853k people in its city proper, but its MSA is 1,756,000. The Twin Cities' MSA is 3.5 million people.
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