"With any luck, CBOE’s downtown comeback will inspire other businesses to make their way back to the Loop and bring about the renewal every Chicagoan wants to see." Yeah, uh, no. The people I know from there are moving to the South or safer parts of the Midwest. Cities have turned more and more into cesspools in the last two years, including Darth Lightfoot's.
Cesspools all started with London in the late eighteen hundreds. "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained." Arthur Conan Doyle
Nice idea, wrong location. Irreversible migration away from Blue metro areas. Trend picking up speed, each one that moves , emboldens ten more to leave "utopia".
Yep. And each murder, beating, mugging, store looting via mobs, etc. the thugs get away with, the more emboldened they get.
Look no farther than the cities with the most cranes downtown. That's pretty much all one needs to know. Not one: https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-states/illinois/chicago/chicago-skyline.html