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Originally Posted by wanderer34
Also, Houston has 640 sq. mi., while Chicago is 227 sq. mi., so essentially Houston has three times the land that Chicago currently has,
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And that's the rub right there, isn't it?
Of course Houston is gonna surpass Chicago in city proper population at some point. The only surprising thing is that it hasn't done so already with its 3x land area.
If Chicago had been allowed to annex itself out to Houston's size, it'd be a city of around 4.6M people today.
From an old thread I made:
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
if chicago had been allowed to annex itself out to Houston's size (~640 sq. miles), it might look something like this:
the yellow townships + the city of Chicago on the map of cook county above represent ~638 sq. miles and contain a total of 4,586,684 people.
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