I’m from Milwaukee and live in Indiana. Have relatives who live in Chicago.
Been there, and been through there many times. It’s over run by liberals gangbangers crime and filth. Admittedly it smells better than Gary used to (before the steel mills closed down) but not by much.
Chicago used to be a great city, but that was before the fire.
I can’t think of one good thing that chicago has given us. (change that. I think Styx is from there. So make that one more good thing...)
The world class architectural richness of Chicago dates from AFTER the fire. There are no ugly buildings which isn’t even true of places like London. The museums, the music, the food, the writers, the miles and miles of beautiful lake front. It’s a world class city that’s actually very clean for a city of that size.