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Originally Posted by Zapatan
A lot of people moved to the suburbs.
Although I guess metro population matters less for skyscrapers since there aren't any in the burbs.
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Well, this is a good point since many of the tall office buildings were built after white flight happened and Chicago's population started to shrink.
More recently though most high rises have been residential. In fact, they're probably a big reason Chicago has gained population. So saying that Chicago doesn't need to build high rise residential is misguided.
As somebody already mentioned, we went from building relatively few condos in high rises to none. They aren't the driving force in construction downtown. Having a lively downtown core with more of a big city feel than the vast majority of US cities is one of Chicago's biggest draws and so residential high rises will continue to be in demand into the foreseeable future, albeit to lesser extent than fast growth cities.