U.S. Cities Whose Population Peaked Before WWII

Based on the clues, try to name these cities who population peaked before the Second World War.

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Year	Peak	Loss	State	Clue	Answer
1940	253,504	25%	RI	The largest city in its state	Providence
1940	112,504	10%	DE	Has more registered corporations than any other city	Wilmington
1940	64,094	40%	NJ	Setting of the HBO show "Boardwalk Empire"	Atlantic City
1930	442,337	31%	NJ	Tony Soprano's hometown	Newark
1930	143,433	47%	PA	Home to Jim, Pam, Dwight, and their boss Michael	Scranton
1930	111,171	15%	PA	Monopoly players will be familiar with its railroad	Reading
1930	101,740	37%	NY	They don't have steamed hams in this city starting with U	Utica
1930	61,659	38%	WV	Former industrial capital of West Virginia	Wheeling
1920	121,217	17%	MA	Whaling center visited in "Moby Dick" prior to Nantucket	New Bedford
1920	41,611	15%	MT	Copper mining boom town whose name is a landform similar to a mesa	Butte
1920	15,203	89%	IL	Mississippi river town pronounced "Care-O"	Cairo
1920	14,027	27%	OR	Setting of "Goonies", "Kindergarten Cop", and "Short Circuit"	Astoria
1920	11,757	5%	OK	The first state capital of Oklahoma, no relation to folk singer Woody	Guthrie
1910	76,813	12%	NY	Named for the city conquered in the Iliad	Troy
1900	12,488	70%	AK	Where the Iditarod sled dog race ends	Nome
1880	14,820	82%	CO	Gold-mining boom town which has the highest elevation of any city in the U.S.	Leadville
1880	3,423	62%	AZ	Where Wyatt Earp had a shootout	Tombstone

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