Chicago isn't that bad, I've been there on a few trips. Seemed like every other place I've been. Nice parts here, bad parts there. I wouldn't say it's decrepit and violent. Big cities usually have that quality. Don't know about LA never been there. St. Louis is the same way, nice here, dirty there, crime ridden there, free of crime here, it's like that with every town. Shoot, I live in a town with less than 10,000 people and we have that. There's one part of town that is just run down apartments and has nothing but hoosiers living there, but oh well.

The one major thing about Chicago that sucked, NO JACK IN THE BOX!!!! What's up with that?