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Old Posted Nov 29, 2021, 7:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan View Post
hamtramck and highland park are such interesting anomalies.

i mean, how many other major US cities have almost entirely pre-war built-out independent municipalities 100% enclaved within them?

chicago has the enclaved burbs of Norridge and Harwood Heights fully inside of city limits on the far northwest side of the city, but they are way further out and >90% post-war in terms of build-out, so not at all the same thing as hamtramck and HP.
Perhaps West Hollywood / Beverly Hills (although apparently West Hollywood was unincorporated until relatively recently?).

Also Mt. Oliver in Pittsburgh.

Columbus has a few enclaves but I have no idea when they're from (maybe they were annexed around recently...).
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