[Opinionated Blowhard]

Instead, try Go to Detroit. It's more honest. Also, there's a great art museum, a proper public market, some of the country's best architecture, the music scene is fun, the food scene is better than it has been in ages and the beer is better and much cheaper. Everything's cheaper. Also: Detroiters are friendly -- Chicagoans are just polite. There's a big difference.

The country's best architecture? Does he mean the bombed out shells of buildings where companies used to have offices, or the blocks of houses that are empty and candidates to be plowed under?

Friendly people? Sure. As long as you give them your wallet, they won't kill you.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

the food scene is better

The "food scene?" Who cares about this, aside from the poofters?

My "food scene" is the supermarket and Mickey D's.