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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
The central core +94,000 in 17 years. That's +460 people per month in a city that was 2.9 million in the year 2000. Pretty solid growth, not sure I would categorize that as booming. I guess it's booming in respect to other parts of the city that lost significant population.
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You do realize that that is roughly 94k people in 17 years in a
2 mile radius (of which a large portion is Lake Michigan), right?
That kind of growth would be considered nothing in a sunbelt boomtown over typically a much, much larger geographic area.
But growth of that degree over such a tight geographic footprint (once again, about 40% of that geography is water) is pure urban awesomeness.