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Old Posted Aug 17, 2021, 9:08 PM
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Originally Posted by marothisu View Post
In 1950, the areas of Grand Boulevard, Oakland, Kenwood, and Douglas had over 250K people. Today it's under 75K. Obviously it won't be that dense these days but there's a ton of room for growth in that area and a lot of vacant lots in some areas still. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
Hopefully we can start broaching those old population figures again by building densely along the lakefront. Would be pretty neat if the south lake front developed a highrise wall similar to that of the north lakefront neighborhoods.

Adding stations and more train frequency to Metra Electric would help with this objective.
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