2013 Design implementation-two sites

Hi!
I have a design implementation question. We are a small firm with 80 AD users, 100 mailboxes, DB store is 200 gigs and all on Exchange 2007 (Virtualized connecting to a SAN), but growing rapidly. Also, we currently have two sites in Chicago and New York(Exchange
2007 server in NY). We would like to upgrade from 2007(all roles installed on a VM server ESX 5.5 server) to 2013. Should we virtualized the Exchange 2013 or should they be physical servers? Also, since the servers will be in separate sites will I need a Load
Balancer in both location? Also, should I split up the roles since we have two locations running the both roles on both servers. For example below:
1 Chicago server-CAS/Mailbox Role
1 New York server-CAS/Mailbox Role
Should I have the Chicago users connect to the Chicago Server? And the New York users pointed to the New York Server? Currently everyone connects to the mail sever in NY. Any advice or comments would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Hi,
Yes, if you need proxy or redirection settings on OWA and other Exchange web services, one CAS in each site is must.
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