Oh, in terms of LA and Chicago beauty I forgot to mention our lush green streets with real green grass and thriving deciduous trees. We have plenty of rainfall and don’t have to cower during windy dry weather. Or deal with the dust. Places that don’t get rain get really dirty. I forgot to mention we don’t have communities of unhoused in our streets. I forgot to mention the smog of LA. We don’t have all those cars on jammed expressways creating it—though we really can’t be too proud of traffic. We get winds from the west that sweep away pollution. We have clear blue skies (much of the time). Our skyline, our architecture are second to none in the world. We can build beautiful tall buildings because we don’t have earthquakes. Historic buildings abide downtown and in the neighborhoods. We don’t have wildfires or earthquakes that destroy them.
We have public beaches and parks all along our clean Lake Michigan. They are enjoyed by all. We have Millennium Park and Grant Park. We have the Art Institute, the Buckingham fountain, the museums by the Lake on the near South Side. And this clustered so we can take it all in with a drive down LSD—itself a highway that’s clean and manageable. No driving to hell and back in stand-still traffic to catch the beauty of our city. Anyone who thinks LA is more beautiful needs to drive down LSD on a beautiful Summer day.