>- From what friends who still live there tell me, the crime has only been getting worse, even in nicer neighborhoods
>- Traffic is miserable and while there is decent public transit, it all goes to hell during a sports game (try taking the Red Line home during a Cubs game...I'd have to let five trains pass before I could squish myself into a car that was literally packed to the door)
Solution don't live along the redline.
The services offered by some of the CPS schools far exceed what you'd get elsewhere.
That's an easy statement to make that conveniently ignores the fact that the Redline is one of the major transit lines in the city because it goes to where there are a ton of jobs. I was fortunate in that I could also take the Brown line at some points when I lived there, and there are plentiful bus options, but the reality is that when there's a Cubs game, good luck commuting home if you live on the North Side, regardless of where you work.
Solution don't live along the redline.
The services offered by some of the CPS schools far exceed what you'd get elsewhere.