Chicago is on the same road, but it will take much longer to fully collapse, if it ever happens. It’s just got a lot more going for it than most of these other cities. No matter how you slice it, there will be a major city where Chicago is located geographically. You just can’t reroute the Mississippi, the Great Lakes, our railroad lines, highways, power grid, telecommunications, and air traffic to go through somewhere else.
Black thugs almost took out NY in the early eighties.
Chicago can be replaced in the area.