Originally Posted by
Exleftseat
But the only thing we know about Chicago is that it is very dangerous...
*Sigh* It's not. It's just not. People get these bizarre, warped impressions of Chicago from garbage, tabloid media playing up gang violence in the few and faraway territory neighborhoods, and conclude the Loop is worse than the Syrian civil war.
When I moved here three years ago, even some of my smart friends asked if I wasn't worried about getting shot all the time.
In fact there are dozens of American cities with a worse per capita violence rate, including Kansas City, Baltimore, and St. Louis:
https://madison.com/news/national/th...09b9a57.html#7
How many visitors to Kansas City worry about meeting death on the way to the World War I museum or Arthur Bryant's?
I live near the Hancock Tower, off the Mag Mile. OP, if you'd like to go out for a very safe beer whilst on layover, PM me.