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Originally Posted by the urban politician

I think that suburbs should merge with eachother, if not with Chicago.

Not sure why nobody has explored this idea

We have literally dozens of suburbs with populations under 5,000 residents, and a handful under 1,000 residents (McCook: 230, Forest View: 700, Bedford Park: 580, etc). Start with those first, and work our way up. Any suburb under 10k residents should be pushed to amalgamate with neighbors in order to achieve tax savings through economies of scale.