Maybe you are thinking of Detroit... Chicago's doing pretty well economically and culturally. Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas are not known for the same style o

Maybe you are thinking of Detroit... Chicago's doing pretty well economically and culturally. Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas are not known for the same style of grafty, political-machine corruption as, say, Chicago or NYC Tammany Hall. The former two don't internally operate at the same scale as a Chicago and I doubt most of the rest of the US cares about their internal goings-on.