We took our kids to Baltimore 20 years ago a couple times a year and loved it.
My family, when I was a kid, went to downtown Chicago a couple times a years.
Hanging out and enjoying big lib cities are a thing of the past and on our current coarse will never change.
Business trip to Chicago 30 years ago: checked out the Monets at the museum, took a bike ride along the lake, dinner at the pier, Cubs game, great steak at the Chophouse.
Wouldn’t set foot there now.