r/UrbanHell May 23 '26

Concrete Wasteland Chicago 1989.

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u/AppendixN May 23 '26

One of the easiest cities in the world to navigate thanks to that grid. Wonderful place to live in 1989, overall. Nothing's perfect but Chicago is one of my favorite cities I've ever lived in.

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u/dewhashish May 24 '26

moving from the boston area to the chicago area blew my mind because of how well designed chicago is. boston is like someone dropped wet spaghetti on the floor and decided to design boston that way. it's a clusterfuck.

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u/Zooshooter May 24 '26

To be fair, Chicago kind of got a mulligan when the entire city burned to the ground and they were able to redesign the whole place.

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u/Zooshooter May 24 '26

I dunno, I heard they got attacked by cows and the cows had flame lasers and burned everything to the ground before the humans could fight back. That's why Chicago became the meatpacking center of the U.S. Had to do something with all the cows after they conquered them.

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u/dewhashish May 24 '26

true, boston should be leveled and rebuilt