I would second this. I grew up in a suburb, but visited the city regularly in my teens and 20's. I have a lot of friends who live in chicago now and pretty much none of them (including hard core stoners to well paid financial investors) have had any trouble with police.

I feel like half of these comments are made up on here, or they were going to a place everyone knows is a bad place.

Hell, Joliet (the suburb I grew up in) had a higher crime rate.