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city at the center of a metropolitan area

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  • Outer-neighborhood Chicagoans tend to think downtowners suffer through our central-city lives.
  • Today, Brisbane's central-city areas along the river are a bustling, diverse and attractive place to wander.
  • There has also been an analysis showing that median incomes of central-city residents have risen relative to their suburban counterparts.
  • And we know that central-city Washington, DC treated as a state in the census grew five percent in the last ten years after decades of decline.
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