To “fix” American cities, society will need to go through a very difficult catharsis.
Problems with drugs, homeless, and the state of young black men must eventually face a reckoning, and have to be dealt with harshly, save for an act of God.
American society has zero stomach or even understanding of it. City Governments will need to be dismantled and rebuilt, because in fact, they are enabling the problems.
I have zero expectation this can happen. So expect present trends to continue.
You’re right it won’t happen in fact the situation in Chicago has to get significantly worse so that it resembles the movie Escape from NY with Shake Plissken where there’s nothing left but roving gangs and all business has departed
Ultimately the CME will leave Chicago and take the thousands of jobs with them which won’t change the course but it will be a major wake-up call any sane person remaining who will probably leave afterwards
Liberalism needs to carried to its ultimate end which results in total destruction and we are far from that in Chicago.