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View Poll Results: Do Chicagoans wish the city were located on the East Coast?
Yes 10 17.86%
No 46 82.14%
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Old 08-18-2017, 06:34 PM
 
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Chicago is Midwest to the core. It makes no sense to consider Chicago among the Northeast Corridor cities.
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Old 08-18-2017, 06:38 PM
 
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Chicago is Midwest to the core. It makes no sense to consider Chicago among the Northeast Corridor cities.
From the pics i seen all my life the city always reminded me of philly and new york. I guess i would have to visit Chicago for myself one day to see how it compare to those cities.
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Old 08-18-2017, 06:57 PM
 
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From the pics i seen all my life the city always reminded me of philly and new york. I guess i would have to visit Chicago for myself one day to see how it compare to those cities.
You need to visit. Chicago looks absolutely nothing like Philly or New York.

What do you find similar? Just because all these cities have big buildings?
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Old 08-18-2017, 07:24 PM
 
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You need to visit. Chicago looks absolutely nothing like Philly or New York.

What do you find similar? Just because all these cities have big buildings?
My friend who went to chicago on business took a picture of a certain area downtown and it reminded me of the centre square area of downtown philly.
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Old 08-18-2017, 08:33 PM
 
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Why would Chicago want to be on the East coast? Would it be grittier, ruder, uglier, and lose its importance in commodities, rail and other transportation, as well as being a regional magnet? Would the blue lake be replaced by the grey ocean or some polluted river? Would its Midwest charm disappear into some Jersey shore attitude? Would its bungalows be taken over by row houses? If you really love Chicago, you wouldn't change a thing.
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Old 08-18-2017, 08:43 PM
 
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Why would Chicago want to be on the East coast? Would it be grittier, ruder, uglier, and lose its importance in commodities, rail and other transportation, as well as being a regional magnet? Would the blue lake be replaced by the grey ocean or some polluted river? Would its Midwest charm disappear into some Jersey shore attitude? Would its bungalows be taken over by row houses? If you really love Chicago, you wouldn't change a thing.
Excellent post. Chicago is Chicago because of the Midwest.
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Old 08-19-2017, 08:24 AM
 
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The only thing about the east coast I wish we had was snow. It seems like every winter all of the snow is on the east coast instead of here!
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Old 08-20-2017, 07:06 AM
 
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Why would Chicago want to be on the East coast? Would it be grittier, ruder, uglier, and lose its importance in commodities, rail and other transportation, as well as being a regional magnet? Would the blue lake be replaced by the grey ocean or some polluted river? Would its Midwest charm disappear into some Jersey shore attitude? Would its bungalows be taken over by row houses? If you really love Chicago, you wouldn't change a thing.
Bravo! Well said
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Old 08-21-2017, 01:43 PM
 
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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Chicago is Midwest to the core. It makes no sense to consider Chicago among the Northeast Corridor cities.
That's basically the point of the thread. Do people in Chicago or from there, wish that it had a Northeast Corridor location to be in much closer range of more world class (or close to world class) cities in a two, three, hour drive. Or do people in Chicago love its Midwestern location and the city itself that much, to prefer to be in in the landlocked Midwest, with a lake of course. Not to mention the differences in things like weather on the East Coast as a opposed to the Great Lakes.
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Old 08-21-2017, 02:07 PM
 
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Honestly I don't think the premise makes sense.

Why would Chicago want to be located on the East Coast? It would lose its reason for being, as a transport and finance center linking resources from the middle of the continent to points east and west via its position on the road network and Great Lakes.

Why would Chicago desire to be redundant on the East Coast which is already flush with population centers?
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