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Why did anyone vote for Chicago? The rest of the Midwest is so far away from that city. I would go as far as to suggest that the majority of the Midwest is no where close to Chicago. Milwaukee and Detroit are the only close cities and if anything those cities are large enough, and influential enough, to have their own thing going on.
Why did anyone vote for Chicago? The rest of the Midwest is so far away from that city. I would go as far as to suggest that the majority of the Midwest is no where close to Chicago. Milwaukee and Detroit are the only close cities and if anything those cities are large enough, and influential enough, to have their own thing going on.
Chicago is a great town but the Midwest is not interconnected in that way. The cities are entirely too far apart. I like Chicago, but growing up in Ohio we never talked about it. We have our own cities to talk about. If anything Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati were our preoccupation.
Chicago is a great town but the Midwest is not interconnected in that way. The cities are entirely too far apart. I like Chicago, but growing up in Ohio we never talked about it. We have our own cities to talk about. If anything Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati were our preoccupation.
I said this many times on C-D and here too. Michigan, Indiana still look to and have some connection to Chicago as its Lead city. But OHIO DOES NOT. Ohio rather LOOK EASTWARD.
But that changes nothing on Chicago STILL as the Centric-city of the Midwest just because as a Ohioan... you felt no connection. Doesn't matter if even Cleveland is closer to Chicago in distance then to NYC.
Cleveland even as a sister-Great Lakes city as Chicago. Shuns looking Midwest instead prefers looking East? I learned how much too reading a thread asking if -- Cleveland saw itself more as a mini-Chicago? OMG that had NO welcome from Clevelanders. LOL.
So I agree with you on the Ohio link broken more toward Chicago. But clearly agree with Chicago as lead city of the Midwest and why it has WON the thread as a Regions key city.
I said this many times on C-D and here too. Michigan, Indiana still look to and have some connection to Chicago as its Lead city. But OHIO DOES NOT. Ohio rather LOOK EASTWARD.
But that changes nothing on Chicago STILL as the Centric-city of the Midwest just because as a Ohioan... you felt no connection. Doesn't matter if even Cleveland is closer to Chicago in distance then to NYC.
Cleveland even as a sister-Great Lakes city as Chicago. Shuns looking Midwest instead prefers looking East? I learned how much too reading a thread asking if -- Cleveland saw itself more as a mini-Chicago? OMG that had NO welcome from Clevelanders. LOL.
So I agree with you on the Ohio link broken more toward Chicago. But clearly agree with Chicago as lead city of the Midwest and why it has WON the thread as a Regions key city.
Have similarities doesn't mean anyone cares about Chicago. Milwaukee, Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland all have similarities (industry, ethnicity, religion, history, etc.). That doesn't mean people in Cleveland care at all about Chicago. Or people in Detroit about Buffalo.
I don't think Cleveland "prefers" looking anywhere. By the way, if you don't count Ohio as a significant portion of the midwest, that is just dumb. It's the 7th largest state in the country, 2nd largest in midwest (only 1 million fewer than Illinois). By the way, Illinois is currently projected at a population loss since the last census, whereas Ohio is still gaining. Guess that means Illinois as a whole is becoming less important and Ohio moreso?
Chicago doesn't even have much influence on the southern part of the state. What a joke this thread it!
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I have family in Cincinnati, and not that they are "influenced" by Chicago or anything, but I think they do look to it as a Midwestern big brother. Indy and Detroit are all closer to Cincy than Chicago, but as people have stated already, in the Midwest when it's time to go to a "world class" destination all eyes look to Chicago first.
It's so interesting, how people feel they can speak for their city, or any city. Actually, it's not really even interesting, it's ridiculous. bjimmy24, you're, somewhat, implying that Ohio is more important to the Midwest than Illinois. Not sure who looks to Ohio, but I'm pretty sure Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, SD, ND, Nebraska and Iowa, don't really feel that Ohio is significant to them. The "joke" is, that people are always trying to be the voice of their city and/or state. Some of us know better, but, evidently, all of us don't.
I have family in Cincinnati, and not that they are "influenced" by Chicago or anything, but I think they do look to it as a Midwestern big brother. Indy and Detroit are all closer to Cincy than Chicago, but as people have stated already, in the Midwest when it's time to go to a "world class" destination all eyes look to Chicago first.
ehhh not convinced of this. Most people go eastward if you're in Ohio - DC isn't that far, NYC either really.
I said this many times on C-D and here too. Michigan, Indiana still look to and have some connection to Chicago as its Lead city. But OHIO DOES NOT. Ohio rather LOOK EASTWARD.
ehhh not convinced of this. Most people go eastward if you're in Ohio - DC isn't that far, NYC either really.
From most major cities in Ohio, Chicago is closer than NYC or DC. Just sayin'.
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