IDAHO VS. CHICAGO

I've lived most of my life in Idaho, and I often find myself comparing and contrasting Idaho and Chicago.  The contrasts far outnumber the comparisons.  For example, Idaho has a population of approximately 1.5 million.  Chicago, on the other hand, has approximately 3 million residents.  One city has twice the population of an entire state!  To put it another way, Idaho's 83,000 square miles house half the population of Chicago's 227 square miles.  That equates to 15.6 people per square mile in Idaho and 12,750.5 people per square mile in Chicago.  Kind of freaky.