1.  Although here, too, Chicago had fared better than many older cities, unemployment remained a serious, seemingly intractable problem.

2.  An older team in an older city, his roster might benefit from an infusion of youth.

3.  An older city fighting creeping budgets blight and meth houses?

4.  At the same time, older American cities are decaying and forlorn.

5.  A close examination of the list of fast-growing cities shows that most are in areas that would normally be considered suburbs of older cities.

6.  But London and other older cities have already felt the sting of decline.

7.  Demographic trends continue to favor nice places like Salt Lake City, Phoenix or Atlanta over gritty ones like the older industrial cities of the Northeast.

8.  Downtown redevelopment, the great hope of urban planners for reviving older cities, has been delayed in Cincinnati, a casualty of the gathering recession.

9.  In older cities like London and New York, it is not unusual for a building with a lengthy history and unlikely provenance to morph into a hotel.

10.  In the monuments and squares of older cities and towns are solemn references to shared origins.