It's not "bad luck"-----Chicago: A City in Freefall - American Thinker

Chicago: A City in Freefall - American Thinker - By John F. Di Leo

"Water Tower Place...Once one of the biggest and most exciting malls in the Midwest, it quietly leaked that the owners are interested in renting out the top five of its eight floors “for purposes other than retail.”
Not just wealthy shoppers, but even browsing tourists, too, it seems, are staying away in droves...
But Chicago has been other things too, all along. 

• A machine town run by one corrupt party, the Democrats. 
• A world-famous home of organized crime, from the mafiosi of the Prohibition Era to the drug gangs of today. 
• A tax and regulatory hell where the government’s share of your income, both above board and under the table, was always painful...