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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
CSA definitions are indeed getting completely out of hand. i mean, chicago's CSA includes both kenosha, WI and remington, IN. these two towns are 160 miles driving distance from each other!!!!!!!!!! given chicago's typical traffic loads, it would take you about 3.5 hours to drive between the two places.
same city my ass. the CSA definition may measure something relevanet, but it's certainly nothing that i would consider a single given human settlement.
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I totally agree that the definitions have become unwieldy, but, to be fair, all of Jasper County, Indiana could be axed and Chicago's CSA would only be down 33,000.
It appears that the Chicago CSAs constituent MSAs didn't pick up any additional counties, but the CSA absorbed the Ottawa–Peru (formerly Ottawa–Streator?) micropolitan statistical area. Ottawa–Peru covers a pretty big area (three counties!); however, most of the 154,000 people reside in LaSalle County, which, by some unofficial definitions, was already included in Chicagoland. This puts the Chicago CSA at nearly
9,900,000.
The Milwaukee CSA added three micropolitan areas and has now broken two million. By my calculations, it's at
2,033,139.
The Madison CSA also grew quite a bit. Its MSA added a small county of nearly 37,000 (Green County, Wisconsin), and the Janesville MSA (hometown of
Eddie Munster Kermit the Frog famous conservative douche and former VP candidate Paul Ryan)—re-dubbed Janesville–Beloit—has now been assimilated into uber–liberal greater Madison. Awesome. That population is
835,740.