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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
Philly and NYC are practically connected.
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neat.
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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
Philly was never called the second city.
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well, the origins of that particular nickname are a bit nebulous.
some sources say that chicago earned the nickname "the second city" after "the first city" was destroyed in the great fire, which would have nothing to so with any other city anywhere.
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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
Chicago's core is much larger than Philly's.
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in 1850, philly had a MUCH larger core than chicago. it really should have at least 30 million people today. what a failure.
and even today, philly's urban core isn't a great deal smaller than chicago's.
check out these same scale tract density maps. philly is a real city, one of the realest on the continent.