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While Cleveland is a big city on the lakeshore, Chicago is the classic mighty metropolis on the lakeshore. Unlike Detroit, Chicago was able to extensively diversify its economy going into the 1900s. Detroit is big, especially the Detroit Metropolitan_Area. However, Chicagoland is quite a vast area, only the NYC, tri-state area & the greater Los Angeles area are the biggest in the US.