Yep, once they stop all the criminal shootings in Chicago,
then come talk to us.
Chicago is has been rotten to the core for so long it’s probably irredeemable. I just read a story in the new Mopar Action about a guy who bought a 1971 Dodge Challenger with a shaker hood - one of 11. It’s didn’t have plates and while he went to get his car trailer the city impounded it. The police claimed to not know who towed it or where it was. He finally tracked down the tow company and the lot where it was. But the lady at the lot gate wouldn’t let him in - nor would her supervisor. He had the title - everything so the supervisor finally relented. So he goes to the lot with his two kids and there’s like 2000-3000 cars there! After hours of looking he finally found it, barely recognizable because it had been stripped! In the police impound lot!! It took him the next 15 years to collect all the right parts to get the car back to what it was before the police impounded the car.
This took place in 1983, so Chicago has been rotting that long at least.
I’ve always avoided driving by Chicago. Last fall my son and GF moved to Cincinnati and through Chicago each missed $9 of tollway fees. With the penalty added each had to pay $120. The system was so messy they hadn’t even realized they missed tolls. Last Christmas I broke down and we came back from visiting our son via Chicago. Those tolls are an absolute racket - every few miles we had to stop and pay a toll. The tolls cost three times the cost of the gas it took to drive through. That is on a road that the government paid for in the first place.
I have a negative desire to ever be anywhere near Chicago.