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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Can't really see it for chicago.
It's the very embodiment of where the great lakes met the great prairie.
Corn and Lumber and Pigs and Iron.
Boats are slow, let's build railroads!
Nature's Metropolis
The interior alpha could've been at St. Louis, that's about it.
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yeah, you’d have to geologically/geographically reorder and downsize the continent - make it narrower or something and chicago could have been on the lake AND at the end of the columbia river or something crazy like a massive puget sound. its not entirely unusal for cities to be sandwiched by two seperate bodies of water - new orleans and auckland, nz come to mind.
but otherwise of course chicago is wholesale a product of the vast wealth extracted from the massive northern half of the
interior from lake huron or whatever to the rockies.