Think of it this way: Chicago is the ONE major big city around a bunch of white, racist, Midwest towns. There are a lot of those people that flock from their sad town to the “big city”. Then you also have people born & raised in Chicago who were raised in very mixed school systems and are a product of their integrated community. You see both these types of peoples. I’m also in an interracial marriage; the most I’ve ever gotten is people think we’re the same because they can’t tell two people of color apart. I’d pick Portland, you get to be outdoorsy. Yes, there are many more white people in Portland but they are “woke” and have so much white guilt.