I left. It’s a toilet.
I left too, after 25-30 very productive, happy years. It’s quite possible to spend one’s early working life in Chicago and do quite well. Being a young, freewheeling renter is one thing. The problem is making it a permanent home. Chicago is no place to buy a home and raise a family — not if you’re middle class. It’s a casually corrupt one-party city.
And remember every house has at least one toilet. Chicago’s toilets are the black neighborhoods. That’s where all the dysfunction and crime is, and the source of Chicago’s reputation as a killing field. Decent people avoid or flee those toilets. Ideally they should be flushed, but the one-party leadership has a creepy fondness for all thing scatalogical.