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Originally Posted by Tom Servo
What are you talking about?
There is nothing suburban about Edgewater. Strip malls and large surface lots exist all over Chicago, even downtown. Also, Broadway is no more auto-centric than Wabash or Grand or whatever. The only "suburban" (which is a silly description btw) parts of Chicago are along the city's edge: the neighborhoods of Forest Glen, Mount Greenwood... place like that... but it's still "the city" (a term suburban people use, which I fucking despise)
This thread is really silly. The City of Chicago is just that. The suburbs are the suburbs. Pretty cut and dry.
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I think he was referring more to prevailing patterns of development. You will see a strip mall in a core neighborhood of Chicago, but auto oriented development clearly becomes more predominant the further you are from the downtown core.
Certainly you recognize that an outer neighborhood of Chicago has more in common, by look and feel, to an older inner ring suburb than it would to, say, Lakeview?