I'm from Minnesota originally and still have family there, so I visit regularly. It looks both the same and very, very different from when I lived there. It almost feels like an alternate reality. I grew up primarily south of the river in what would probably have been considered exurbs. There were farms and vast areas of undeveloped land. They're all quite suburban now (a lot of this was happening when I was growing up) and the populations have exploded.

This same thing seems to have happened in many other cities around the U.S. as indicated by the 'bullet wound' pattern all over the map.