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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
which is why, to do this right, you'd ideally do a city/county merger.
there's more than enough affluence & good old fashioned middle class stability in northern, northwestern, western, and southwestern cook county to offset the pockets of suburban poverty in western & southern cook county.
not that it will ever happen, but that's how the deal should go down, in a perfect world.
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Cook County as one City of Chicago? That's an enormous area for one level of government.
Not being a Chicago resident I can't speak to the utility or political viability of this; but I'd be inclined to fold the 2 Stickney bits, along with Oak Park, Cicero and Berwyn and maybe Norwood Park, along with Worth and Calumet into Chicago proper.
That to me is a manageable, logical boundary.
After that, I'd be inclined to create a single, large municipality on each of Chicago's borders.
One to the north, Evanston, Niles, Northfield and Maine
One to the west, Leydon, River Forest, Proviso, Riverside, Lyons and Palos
One to the south, Thornton, Bremen, Orland