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Originally Posted by JManc
Growing up in the Rust Belt, I always associated Chicago with 'Rust Belt' because of its legacy as a major transportation and manufacturing hub. It also is a cosmopolitan city with a huge corporate presence that for some, probably helped it shake the stigma better than a Cleveland or Detroit.
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I can't speak for Cleveland, but for Detroit it seems like the key differentiator between it and Chicago is the level of flight (white and corporate) from the inner-city between the 1950s and 1990s. This was different from what the small industrial towns like Youngstown and Gary went through, which was mostly a complete collapse of industry.