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A split I suppose. 1/3 is shiny new and modern with all the fixins, 1/3 is stable and flies under the radar. Quality housing, families, mix of blue and white collar, and then 1/3 is what makes the news all the time. The ghettos with the violence and poverty and protests.
I'd probably go with Detroit...both Chicago and Detroit have a history of heavy industry and were huge magnets during the Great Migration, which gave them large Black populations. Both are also Great Lakes cities. Minneapolis seems to be something of an outlier in the Midwest as far as the major metros go.
Similar architecture, demographics, street-level feel. Similar huge arterials radiating out from downtown. Similar look in the burbs. Similar bungalow belts. Similar local foods (variations on deep dish pizza, hot dogs and Italian subs).
Similar heavy Indian, Arab, Polish communities. Similar huge black populations, from same areas in the South.
Chicago is basically a bigger, more urban, more successful Detroit, in some ways. Of course there are differences too.
The joke we used to say when I was a kid was that if you took the loop out of Chicago you were left with Detroit.
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