r/BeAmazed • u/Super-Stevie117 • Aug 15 '26

Place Downtown Chicago is the most beautiful downtown in America 📍🇺🇸

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u/goodfella311 Aug 15 '26

It is a very beautiful city. I grew up in LA and when I went to Chicago it felt like a city from the movies. It has a distinct personality and energy about it .

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u/Fit-Actuator4194 Aug 15 '26

Lived there for a decade and it’s fantastic, I’d even call it underrated as far as us cities go (I work with a lot of international clients and it doesn’t seem to be on people’s lists really compared to New York and LA).

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Aug 15 '26

When most people think of Chicago they think of o-block and all the gang violence. It’s a shame. Personally I’ve never been but it seems beautiful from the pictures and videos I’ve seen.

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u/shes_a_gdb Aug 15 '26

Chicago is a great city. That's why people who live 4 hours outside of Chicago still claim it.

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u/Top_Audience7471 Aug 15 '26

Listen, us former residents of the firmly established Chicago neighborhood of Lake Zurich take umbrage with your comment.

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u/guyincognito121 Aug 17 '26

I'm a five minute bike ride from a Metra stop. I'm therefore in Chicago.

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u/moch1 Aug 16 '26

I think that’s because most people not from the area couldn’t name a single other city in the area…

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u/corysama Aug 15 '26

Guilty. For a while I lived in the Elgin district of Chicago.

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u/woolfchick75 Aug 15 '26

Hey. I grew up nearby. My father worked in Elgin.

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u/bloopbloopsplat Aug 16 '26

Meh. Its because everyone knows where chicago is, but maybe not whatever chicago suburb you live in.

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u/GeddysPal Aug 16 '26

Exactly. My mailing address may have said Downers Grove, but I lived in Chicago for three years.
Of course I worked for Portillo’s (HQ in Oak Brook, so also worked in Chicago). So double Chicagoan.

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u/cheneyza Aug 16 '26

Former colleague used to claim it, I looked up what neighborhood she'd go on and on about, 30 minutes outside the city. So annoying about it, like it was a personality trait, still talked like she lived there or had family there but they moved away years ago.

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u/Comfortable-Rub-7400 Aug 15 '26

That’s because it’s in the middle of nowhere

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u/eknutilla Aug 15 '26

How do you figure?

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u/Comfortable-Rub-7400 Aug 15 '26

Because I live here and have driven into Illinois and Indiana? Lol

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u/eknutilla Aug 15 '26

Chicago is in Illinois, how could you drive into Illinois from Chicago?

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u/Comfortable-Rub-7400 Aug 15 '26

Oh, I thought you were genuinely asking. Driving further into Illinois outside of the Chicago suburbs, sorry for not explicitly stating that

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u/eknutilla Aug 15 '26

Okay so how is a city that is surrounded by other cities "in the middle of nowhere?"

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u/headybutthash Aug 15 '26

Dude he's still trying to figure out where he's going

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u/Slicelker Aug 15 '26

Not the guy you were talking with, but a 4 hour drive to Chicago could mean a 1-2 hour drive to the nearest decently sized city. You'd call it middle of nowhere to if you'd see how flat and empty it was.

Also look where Chicago is on the map relative to most of Illinois.

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u/B00G3R Aug 15 '26

maybe 1-2 hours from downtown. not from chicago proper, though.

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u/Slicelker Aug 15 '26

Thats what I meant by decent sized city haha. 4 hours to downtown.

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