^ You are making lots of generalizations here. There is a struggle going on in suburban real estate, yes, but your ongoing prediction of some sort of death knell is starting to sound comical. You’ve obviously spent very little time exploring Chicago’s burbs and think of them in some theoretical way instead of the living, breathing mass of humanity that they are—and are nowhere within light years of dying.
You should stop by some of the numerous urban burbs on your way up to Wisconsin for a change. There is a hell of a lot to see here, and probably more and better prewar as well as dense urban infill building stock than you give it credit for.
I do agree with your point about towns like Dolton not benefiting from sharing with Chicago’s tax base.
But it’s a fat chance in hell that Chicago would annex these places. Chicago has enough deteriorating, crime infested neighborhoods as it is. There is absolutely nothing in it for Chicago.
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