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Originally Posted by ChiMIchael
You make this claim like Houston will always have perpetually high or moderate growth while Chicago will always be treading water. While that is probable, I just don't agree that the course can't change over the next 50 years. How exactly it would change, I don't know.
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^ I'm just not focused on that. I can't predict where things will be in 50 or 100 years. I'm sure that in 1900 nobody could have dreamed that an upstart town in Texas would challenge the mighty Chicago 120 years later.
All that Chicago can do is to make itself a better and more desirable place to live, visit, and do business. If it succeeds, the population will grow and more wealthy residents will come. If it doesn't, it will remain stagnant and shrink.
The focus should be on crime, making things livable and fair for business and residents, and getting its financial house in order. Everything else follows that.