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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Chicago sprawl follows a favored quarter pattern to the north and northwest, with a bit to the west as well. The south past the city is mostly empty
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chicagoland absolutely sprawls more to the north, northwest and west than it does to the south, but to say that "the south past the city is mostly empty" is woefully incorrect.
the south cook county burbs + will county are home to
1,402,805 people.
and the two core counties of NWI (lake & porter) are home to additional
671,915 people.
so while chicagoland may not sprawl as much south of the city as it does in the other directions, with over 2 million folks calling the I-80 corridor portion of the metro area home, it is definitely not "mostly empty".
here's Steger, a southland burb that's a full 12 miles south of 138th street:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4519.../data=!3m1!1e3
a couple miles south of Steger is where the cornfields begin.