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Originally Posted by Centropolis
why at least one major tourist/vacation city wasn't built in the twentieth century on the scale of what you might find in New Jersey, you know complete with a boardwalk.
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The Jersey Shore served demand from both New York and Philadelphia—huge numbers compared to Chicago. Second, Chicago demand was split among Lake Geneva, Chain of Lakes, Southwest Michigan, and even a few places in Indiana. Finally, Chicago had high-quality in-town beaches, which you could get to on the streetcar. New York didn't have anything similar until the Robert Moses era, and even then they were much harder to reach.