Posted Jul 17, 2009, 6:19 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Chicago
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Originally Posted by vid
Chicago might not be very close to any other large cities besides Milwaukee, but there are a dozen large cities orbiting it at an approximately 500 mile radius, and almost each of those is on the way to another large city. Go south of the lake through Indiana and Michigan to Detroit, then south through Ohio and Pennsylvania to New York; Due south through St. Louis, Memphis to the gulf coast; westward to Denver with stops in places like Rockford, Des Moines and Omaha or southwest to Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas and the Texas/Southwest lines; north to Minneapolis via Milwaukee and Madison. Chicago makes a lot of sense as a rail hub of any kind, it's right there in the middle of the country and SW lake Michigan is a very populated place. People from as far as Winnipeg gravitate to Chicago. It's the big city we go to up here. (After Minneapolis.)
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Indy (~800K ; 2 million CSA) is about 180 miles......believe me this will be the only time you'll see me defending naptown.....a true HSR could do this in less than an hour
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