Quote Originally Posted by illwill View Post
Hey Bham,

I personally think Detroit has a bigger economic impact than the city of Chicago. In fact I argue that we have the number 1 or 2 impact in the US and globally as well. I'm not so quick to give all the glory to New York. If the automobile industry died then the world would be STUCK in time.
While it depends on how you define "impact," I think it is hard to argue that metro Detroit has a bigger economic impact than Chicago It may be the case that Detroit's contributions are more visible [[i.e., cars), but Chicago is a far larger city and metro area, with a much larger economy. For example, Chicago's services economy [[finance, insurance, real estate) is one of the largest in the country, whereas Detroit's is comparatively tiny.

In 2010, the Chicago metro area had a GDP of about 532 billion, whereas the Detroit metro area had a GDP of about 198 billion. Suffice it to say that both are very significant, though.