With all due respect, no. I live in the Washington DC suburbs and used to be married to a woman from Chicago. I would recommend DC over Chicago any day of th

With all due respect, no. I live in the Washington DC suburbs and used to be married to a woman from Chicago. I would recommend DC over Chicago any day of the week. It may be slightly cheaper. But as they say "there are two seasons in Chicago: Winter and Construction." Either way, traffic is gonna suck. And of course there's the weather, the Political Machine that runs the city (and to a lesser extent the State), and of course the traffic. While I agree Chicago offers incremental upgrades to many of the "worse" major cities in the US, the difference does not justify the cost of uprooting and moving there.