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Old 04-14-2009, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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Would you say it has a good one? Chicago personified, would he even care about the rest of the urban Midwest or would he be more concerned with his peers such as NYC or LA? What do you think?
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Old 04-14-2009, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Chicago- Hyde Park
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Chicago "personified" has a lot of influence (positive and negative) on other midwestern cities. Chicago isn't too concerned about it's peers because considering the size and population of the city- Chicago holds its own, so we would much rather be a "big brother" or innovator of things that defines the midwest
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Old 04-14-2009, 12:04 PM
 
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We thumb our noses at other midwestern cities, but have minor inferiority complexes regarding New York's "New Yorkiness", Los Angeles's weather and celebrity culture, and the Bay Area's technical innovation and progressiveness...

Actually, nah, none of us really give a ****.
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Old 04-14-2009, 12:21 PM
 
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Everyone I know loves Minneapolis, Indy, St. Louis and Milwaukee...places you can drive to in 2-5 hours.

I really don't think Chicago bothers to spend much time thinking about other people enough to get either a huge ego problem or an inferiority complex.

The coasts are far away, and Chicago is quite a bit different than NYC or Los Angeles. We have enough issues to worry about to really stop and be all bothered how we stand up to NYC.

We stand above the other Midwestern cities, but I think at the end of the day Chicago is more of the Midwest's "city ambassador" to the rest of the country than someone who sits around making fun of their neighbors.
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Old 04-14-2009, 01:23 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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I pull for other Midwestern cities in sports events and consider myself an Illinoisan and a Midwesterner and an inhabitant of the pays den haute as well as a Chicagoan.
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Old 04-14-2009, 01:34 PM
 
Location: River North, Chicago, Illinois
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Would you say it has a good one? Chicago personified, would he even care about the rest of the urban Midwest or would he be more concerned with his peers such as NYC or LA? What do you think?
I didn't even know there were other cities in the Midwest anymore ...
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Old 04-14-2009, 01:45 PM
 
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I didn't even know there were other cities in the Midwest anymore ...

It's true...they are basically all losing population...in 1950 4 of 10 of the largest cities in america were in the midwest (chicago, detroit, st louis and cleveland). Now there's only chicago.
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Old 04-14-2009, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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It's true...they are basically all losing population...in 1950 4 of 10 of the largest cities in america were in the midwest (chicago, detroit, st louis and cleveland). Now there's only chicago.
Interesting. Can we attribute this to the white flight to the suburbs? How did Chicago remain while the other three did not?
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Old 04-14-2009, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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Actually many Midwestern cities, including Chicago, that lost population for many years actually gained population between the 1990 and 2000 census. We'll just have to wait and see what happens in the next census.
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Old 04-14-2009, 02:21 PM
 
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The 2000 Census was the first to show growth for New York in quite a while too... The turnaround in the Northeast is a somewhat recent phenomenon.
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