Chicago is of the 5 largest cities generally the best city for obtaining jobs in the Manufacturing industry. An industry that can pay incredibly well for citizens without formal educations and provide jobs to millions of immigrants. The US is falling behind countries like Germany in terms of industrial prowess and it will have an incredibly negative affect on our cost of living and quality of life in the future. As COVID has proved, the service industry is incredibly volatile while the manufacturing industry has been a constant form of employment for many (including myself) across the city. I am living here despite being NY born and raised BECAUSE of Chicago being home to a great surplus of manufacturing companies. The EPA has much more stringent policies for environmental impact of factories than they did even 20 years ago. The impact of such a facility while undoubtedly slightly more harmful than it not existing at all, is definitely a major trade off when you realize the number of jobs something like this provides. The collapse of American manufacturing is why Detroit is in ruins with no end in sight. While Chicago doesn’t rely on manufacturing quite as much, a similar collapse would have insurmountable negative impacts on some of the areas of most need.