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Old Posted Sep 19, 2019, 5:17 PM
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Originally Posted by kool maudit View Post
It's the same thing and served the same function when it was built. Toronto was a metro of a little over 1 million then.
yeah, chicagoland was like 5 times bigger than metro toronto in 1930 (~4,365,000 vs. ~810,000), so of course you're gonna have a lot more of this streetcar/railroad suburb style development in chicagoland.

it's just math.
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