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Originally Posted by Centropolis
regardless, cincinnati i think would stand to benefit were it to be a final western american outpost in a chicagoless north america.
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I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that the Midwest would have been "Chicagoless" in this alternate history.
A city of some sort was destined to arise somewhere around the bottom of lake michigan, given the bottle neck the 300 mile long lake makes, but it certainly could have ended up for more modest in stature if the cards had been played differently.
Completely off topic: Speaking of the bottom of lake Michigan, we spent the day at Marquette Park beach down in Gary, which is the literal bottom of the lake (it's southernmost extent). It's an absolute gem of a park, and a really nice beach too with a fair bit of sand, even with the record high lake levels.