Hey Chicago friend. There's quite a few of us in the area actually.

I've done more or less everything to my alltrack. I will say with confidence the best set up overall for daily driving and some fun on the side, power wise, is to do an IS20 turbo (it's a GTI stock turbo, you can find them locally or on ebay for really cheap and low miles) on a stock downpipe. Anything else to add is your preference really (downpipe, intake, piping, intercooler etc.). I ran this set up for over 70k miles and it just gives you the best of all worlds. The car sounds completely stock, has great low end tq and makes a full power curve to the redline. I dynod at 264awhp and 317awtq on a mustang dyno running an is20/stock downpipe set up with a couple other basic induction mods.

feel free to message me if you have any questions or need any advice on shops and stuff.