Cities that find it difficult to wait ten years to find out how big they are, were soothed last week when the Newspaper Feature Bureau of Wheeling, W. Va., revealed population estimates for Jan. 1, 1927. The 20 largest cities in the U. S. are as estimated:
1. New York City 6,323,000
2. Chicago 3,152,000
3. Philadelphia 2,052,000
4. Detroit 1,431,000
5. Los Angeles 1,269,000
6. Cleveland± 996,000
7. Boston 860,000
8. St. Louis 835,000
9. Baltimore 826,000
10. San Francisco 709,000
11. Pittsburgh 686,000
12. Buffalo 591,000
13. Washington 536.000
14. Milwaukee 526,000
15. Newark 473,000
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