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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
Pretty solid growth, not sure I would categorize that as booming.
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it is booming when you consider the fact that the 11 sq. miles of chicago's central area were home to ~150,000 people in 2000, and are now home to ~250,000 people, a 67% increase in just under 2 decades.
we also say that downtown chicago is "booming" because it has built
50 towers over 500' since 2000. that's more 500+ footers than any other US city not named new york or miami even has in the first place.
if you took all of the new towers chicago has built over the past 2 decades and put 'em in a cornfield in central illinois, that new cornfield skyline would be bigger and taller than the existing skylines of houston, LA, atlanta, dallas, philly, SF, seattle, etc.
in an american context, that can't be categorized as anything other than "booming".