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Originally Posted by destroycreate
Ok wow...I'm blown away by the architecture there. I'm surprised it was that ornate given it's the midwest; Chicago/Milwaukee/Minneapolis architecture, while pleasant, isn't nearly as fanciful looking.
What exactly is the cliffnotes reason(s) that Cincinnati isn't bigger and better today than it could be?
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i'll take a shot at this, but i'm coming at it tangentially. i'm sure someone could give specifically a financials/banking reason, but cincinnati was one of the three important original "gateway" cities of the midwest that had banking/rail/investment/mercantile/trade hinterlands around and to the west from which it relied upon for its early growth, prior to the later massive industrial growth of the midwest. my guess is that the growth of all of it's nearby neighbors sort of hacked into that growth stream, sort of how chicago took over a huge amount of the st. louis trade and banking hinterland. this sort of stunted the growth of the region early on.