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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21
I choose to look at it as we are almost 5x better than anyone else...
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yeah, that's my take away too.
NYC is in another universe these days in terms of skyscraper construction, and given the radical imbalance in size, economy, and urbanism, combined with astronomically higher land values due to its island geography, only a fool would expect that chicago is going to "catch-up" to new york in terms of skyline anytime in the foreseeable future.
but NYC is such a national outlier on so many levels that it's not always a terribly useful point of comparison. compared to all of the rest of the "normal" US cities, chicago really does stand head and shoulders above the crowd in terms of skyscraper construction.