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Originally Posted by Docere
It seems like by the 1920s that the wealthy and executive class had already largely moved out of city limits in the older cities in the eastern half of the US.
A generation before the mass suburbanization after WWII.
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by 1920, cook county already had 351,312 people living in it outside of the city of chicago.
if we add evanston's 1920 population of 37,234 to the "core northshore", then that corridor north of the city along the lakefront had a population of 56,311 in 1920.
but by far the biggest suburban concentration in 1920's chicagoland would've been the inner-most western burbs of cicero, oak park, berwyn, and forest park with a 1920 pop. of 109,771.
Together, those two early large suburban zones contained nearly half of cook county's non-city population back then.
however, like evanston, those inner western burbs more closely aligned with the notion of "city neighborhoods that successfully fought off annexation" as opposed to more "true suburbs" like winnetka or glencoe.
this might make for a good separate topic:
Suburbia 1920: what did your metro area's sprawl-scape look like a century ago?