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Interesting post I came across on skyscraperpage.com...

Here are the midwest's 15 largest cities ranked by population within a certain radius from each city's respective city hall (2010 census numbers).

Within 1 mile of city hall:
1. Chicago: 63,120
2. Minneapolis: 31,036
3. Milwaukee: 21,587
4. Cincinnati: 17,681
5. St. Louis: 17,359
6. Grand Rapids: 16,099
7. Omaha: 15,582
8. Indianapolis: 14,058
9. Kansas City: 13,709
10. Akron: 12,479
11. Cleveland: 9,471
12. Dayton: 9,182
13. Detroit: 8,709
14. Toledo: 8,304
15. Columbus: 7,416


Within 2 miles of city hall:
1. Chicago: 181,714
2. Minneapolis: 123,526
3. Milwaukee: 86,261
4. Grand Rapids: 75,613
5. Cincinnati: 65,264
6. Omaha: 56,244
7. Toledo: 55,739
8. Akron: 53,715
9. Columbus: 49,667
10. Indianapolis: 45,079
11. Dayton: 41,053
12. St. Louis: 40,184
13. Kansas City: 32,900
14. Detroit: 32,810
15. Cleveland: 32,193


Within 3 miles of city hall:
1. Chicago: 318,522
2. Minneapolis: 228,927
3. Milwaukee: 208,776
4. Cincinnati: 138,235
5. Columbus: 134,826
6. Grand Rapids: 127,535
7. Akron: 122,395
8. Omaha: 113,044
9. Indianapolis: 102,412
10. Dayton: 101,817
11. Toledo: 94,058
12. St. Louis: 94,038
13. Kansas City: 77,388
14. Cleveland: 64,721
15. Detroit: 64,046


Within 4 miles of city hall:
1. Chicago: 508,949
2. Minneapolis: 325,198
3. Milwaukee: 319,111
4. Columbus: 221,466
5. Cincinnati: 205,624
6. Grand Rapids: 184,887
7. Akron: 177,674
8. Omaha: 168,724
9. Toledo: 166,569
10. Indianapolis: 166,266
11. St. Louis: 160,117
12. Kansas City: 155,802
13. Dayton: 152,789
14. Cleveland: 139,945
15. Detroit: 109,104


Within 5 miles of city hall:
1. Chicago: 764,400
2. Minneapolis: 448,499
3. Milwaukee: 438,629
4. Cincinnati: 315,665
5. Columbus: 314,557
6. Omaha: 253,723
7. St. Louis: 251,432
8. Grand Rapids: 247,473
9. Indianapolis: 240,970
10. Akron: 227,825
11. Cleveland: 227,309
12. Kansas City: 216,483
13. Dayton: 214,614
14. Toledo: 213,529
15. Detroit: 198,341

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It's interesting how well Milwaukee ranks given that Lake Michigan occupies so much of the area between 2-5 miles of City Hall.

TitosBuritoBarn wrote:It's interesting how well Milwaukee ranks given that Lake Michigan occupies so much of the area between 2-5 miles of City Hall.

The lake also occupies so much of the suburbs as well.

MTO wrote:

TitosBuritoBarn wrote:It's interesting how well Milwaukee ranks given that Lake Michigan occupies so much of the area between 2-5 miles of City Hall.

The lake also occupies so much of the suburbs as well.

What?

Linkin5 wrote:

MTO wrote:

TitosBuritoBarn wrote:It's interesting how well Milwaukee ranks given that Lake Michigan occupies so much of the area between 2-5 miles of City Hall.

The lake also occupies so much of the suburbs as well.

What?

I think what he is trying to say is that the lake takes up a large portion of area where there is no chance for population.

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I think what he is trying to say is that the lake takes up a large portion of area where there is no chance for population.[/quote]

No chance?

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Louie wrote:The lake also occupies so much of the suburbs as well.

What?[/quote]
I think what he is trying to say is that the lake takes up a large portion of area where there is no chance for population.[/quote]

No chance?

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Why do architects keep dreaming up these infeasible concepts? Is there some kind of internal competition to see who can come up with the most outlandish "futuristic" structure to "solve" our current population and resource problems?