A few nights ago I was taking a connecting flight in Chicago and there was a layover and I had to rent a hotel room for the night. When I taking an uber to the hotel I saw something strange, there was this huge open field right in the middle of downtown, it must have gone on for miles, I couldn't see the end of it. Why does America complain about there being a housing shortage when there's literally room right there to build cheap affordable public housing in the east side of Chicago? Completely insane, that's your brain on capitalism, hope I never have to step foot in shitcago again!

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    You mean the park that used to be parking?

    I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or if you’re dumb.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Let me elaborate-

      There is a series of Parks basically along the entire lakefront aside from a few spots. The big park that is by all the hotels is Grant Park and it’s great.

      Getting rid of parks is stupid.

      Especially when things can be built up better South and West and north. The loop (pre-covid, during the week) was packed with people. Like extremely dense to the point where it was a logistical problem that requires multiple levels of roads for delivering goods, repairs, buses and trains and also cars/parking Water needs, power.

      Parks rock, endless skyscrapers sucks.

      • generationgonzalo [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I've only been to Chicago a few times in the winter so I never got to go to the parks but I've heard they're good. With that said Chicago does have a shitload of land undeveloped to the east of it. It just goes on for miles and you can't see the end of it. Why isn't Chicago building on this land, not even plant a few trees?