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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
I think Chicago is another category. Up to the 1990's, it was arguably one of the most important cities in the world, with an incredibly diversified economy, world's busiest airport, etc. It started to lose ground from the 2000's.
However, fortunes can change. 1970's New York also lost population. It was the largest metro area ever to do so, while being the most populated area in the US and the 2nd in the world.
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Right, yeah. I didn't mean that Chicago is rustbelt like Youngstown or Flint or Detroit or Pittsburgh is rustbelt. It's the alpha rustbelt city, with true global presence. Yet some of the demographic characteristics still reflect that heavy industry past, which the cities of the region share. The metro has an old population and they're dying. I said I like that Chicago is still rustbelt at its core because I'll take a city where families live for generations through the ups and downs of a city's fortunes over a transient "hot" city any day of the week.