Posted on 01/30/2015 3:05:53 PM PST by yetidog
Is Chicago a great city? What makes it different?
Not a lot of time. Illinois is 100 billion in debt. Michigan at least has a balanced budget amendment, so for the state anyway there is no debt.
CC
I lived in Chicago many years ago. I had the good fortune to live 1/2 block off of Lake Shore Drive and 2 blocs from my office on Michigan Ave. That also made it 1.5 blocks from the beach. So pretty much every amenity you could want was right there. And that part of town didn’t have much, if any, violence (at least back then)
If someone likes cities, Chicago is a fine one to live in. The folks I met are really nice, midwestern types, albeit a little liberal as in any city. But polite, civil, would do anything to help a friend or neighbor. Chicago has the Art Institute, Second City, good theatre, symphony, fine restaurants, bars if you drink. You can (and I did) take classes at local universities. Transportation is incredibly good, with a super commuter railroad system for travel to the ‘burbs for visits to relatives. So, yes it’s a great city. You’d just have to start off liking cities.
My primary objection was the brutal and endless winter! Snow/ice from Thanksgiving till Easter, continuing pretty much with cold till Memorial Day. After a year, I left for Southern California!
It is easy to get lost there if driving yourself around (yes there are parking lots and garages in Chicago, though pricey). I used to live in that metro area. I wouldn’t recommend to habitually go downtown except on something like the Metra.
Thank you! We need to counter the anti-Chicago/city rural/suburban people here who are trying to discourage a woman from moving there. A great city.
There was a time when cities were regarded as civilizing and centers of moral rectitude. It was the wilderness that was immoral.
Stay away from MLK Blvd.
A person shot a little less than every 5 hours.
Let’s take up a collection to get that person out of the city.
I spent 20 years there as a LEO. Retired and got out.
Like any historic, Big City, it has good areas and some excitement.
In my 20 years there I watched Dick Daley the Younger change Chicago. My own analogy is that he changed it from the “Blues Brothers” Chicago to the “Ferris Bueller” Chicago.
From gritty and workmanlike; to flashy and ‘friendly’, but oh so much more corrupt.
The Outfit guys of the 50s and 60s could of only dreamt about what the Machine has going on there now.
What makes it [Chicago] different?
Great hot dogs and a hot dog stand or restaurant on almost every street.
Portillos Italian Beef sandwiches
Italian Restaurants in the Elmwood Park area
White Castle hamburgers
I miss Barnellis.
The loss of morality has had a devastating effect on our cities.
It’s based in a loss of care about God, not just ritual but heartfelt. Without that, there is not much to be “moral” about.
A little over 100 years ago, Chicago was the focus of a lot of evangelism. It showed.
At night the "Loop," the heart of the business district, is pretty deserted. But I have often been in the Michigan Avenue area at night and felt perfectly safe. Like any big city, there are neighborhoods to avoid. If you go to the Museum of Science and Industry, or Aquarium, two great places, go by Lake Shore Drive, don't try the direct route through the South Side neighborhoods.
The worlds best blackened chicken wings are at a sports bar at Union Station. Everytime I’m in Chicago I have to have me some wings and those are the best.
I am from Kansas City suburbs. Spent most of my life there. For 40% of the last twelve years I have also lived in Chicago during the week for business.
It is a great business town. Good incomes, vibrant city in the urban area an north side. If I was a young single buy looking for the best place to make money in a variety of fields, I would consider it.
To live with a family, I would choose a suburb of any town before the urban setting.
Young women like Chicago. But it has a lot of danger and a lot of young women are targets or a certain percentage of the males in a large city like that.
When I left NYC for Chicago 32 years ago, I felt like I returned to the USA. Great and varied neighborhoods. Very liveable.
>>>Pretty much describes any large city.<<<<
I doubt your daughter would have been so impressed with Atlanta, Philly or Indianapolis. Chicago’s no New York or London. But then again, it’s more prestigious and impressive than most. I’m a local who doesn’t really like Chicago. It’s a frustrating place in so many ways. I live in and prefer the suburbs. But I gotta say the downtown here is pretty cool. Especially compared to the Midwest alternatives.
Raised in mid sized city of half a million but the country environ was very close and accessible
The city is now lost to the black race in near totality....extremely dangerous
I now live 30 miles south of a two million metro area southern city which is probably the most livable in Dixie relatively speaking given demographics
I have lived in for long periods of time Manhattan and Miami as well
I have worked in steady or lived briefly in London, Bogota, Rio, São Paulo, Kingston, Caracas, Barranquilla, Belo Horizonte , Hong Kong, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Memphis, Atlanta, Port au Prince and Freetown SL and Tel Aviv
Crime and pricey rent are often but not always issue
In the USA as a hard right traditionalist I find the vast majority of city dwellers repulsive.
I have nothing in common with them anymore. If you have a large family like I do you get stuck with big private school bills
I would only do it again for a huge salary and some equity
I understand young folks loving it....they are more apathetic to the dissolution of our way of life
The most conservative big city is Dallas but with Hispanic era its fallen to libtards too
I don’t miss it but I do enjoy visiting
New Orleans and Miami and Dallas
It’s personal preference
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