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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
I would not peg the late '00s as the time period when Chicago's skyline "peaked", but that's just me.
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I would say it's when it peaked relative to other major skylines, particularly NYC and Toronto in North America, many of the Asian cities, plus Dubai and maybe Moscow.
NYC makes Chicago look small and that wasn't really the case until very recently. I gave NYC an extended mulligan anyway until the skyline could at least recover from 9/11, but Chicago was probably still slightly ahead at the time One WTC was rebuilt. Now Midtown alone, with Hudson Yards, exceeds the entirety of Chicago. Plus, Toronto is getting closer in the rearview mirror with actual supertalls out of the ground.
Basically, however strong you feel the current boom is, it hasn't been as strong as the booms of most of Chicago's rival skylines on a global scale.