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Originally Posted by memph
Yeah but probably 95% of Chicagoland's population lives in an area the size of the GTHA.
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Yeah, the way that the US census bureau mashes up entire counties to create MSA's & CSA's leads to some absurdly bloated results when it comes to land areas.
Chicagoland's Urban Area population is 8.6 million people living upon 2,400 sq. miles of land. That gives an infinitely more accurate picture of what the true size of "Chicago" is. The other 1M people in the obnoxiously bloated chicago CSA (I think it's up to a ridiculous 17 counties now!!!) are sprinkled across the other 8,400 sq. miles. Roughly 80% or more of that remaining land is literally cornfields.