| | ABC News: Inland Empire Emerges As Population Hub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Hundreds of new tract and luxury homes are going up throughout the city, where the population has doubled in 15 years to about 170,000. |
 | | Many of the newcomers are refugees from cities closer to the coast, where soaring housing prices have sent people packing to the region known as the Inland Empire, an area about the size of Virginia that includes San Bernardino and Riverside counties. |
 | | "The Inland Empire is about where Orange and L.A. counties were about 20 years ago," said Frank Williams, head of the Building Industry of Southern California chapter that covers San Bernardino County. |
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