Pretty much every large city claims to have had the largest network. Usually the claim only holds up if you're talking about the largest network in the respective state.
The question is really muddied because of the complicated relationship between urban streetcar and interurban rail systems, which were often controlled by the same set of traction companies and used the same tracks within cities. There were whole sets of interurban lines crisscrossing the Midwest, entirely separate from mainline railroads.
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