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Originally Posted by Crawford
Chicago's core is extremely dense and huge, but it drops off almost immediately in most directions but N/NW.
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actually, the middle and outer ring western burbs are, on average, a little bit denser than their northern counterparts, with the exception of the waukegan area.
https://www.socialexplorer.com/c1ee92b1e2/view
but yes, generally speaking, the contrast between "the city" and "the burbs" is
MUCH starker in chicagoland than it is in metro LA.
once again, hyper centralization vs. hyper poly-centrism.