MalikReloaded
All Star
I definitely prefer Chicago to D.C. There's a lot more to do and D.C. can be stifling at times.
Try downtown, Gold Coast, Southport, East Lakeview, Ravenswood, Andersonville, Lincoln Park, or Roscoe Village. Great areas with great walk scores and low crime.
Those are the areas I was looking into. Lincoln Park, Lakeview and if I went to the South Side...Hyde Park.

It's sad. Your city looks so beautiful from the pictures but, it's pointless if walking down the wrong street will get you murked.
That is like the same murder rate you see in the safest South and Central American cities without Cartels.
no drug and weed bullshyt should be permissible. unmarked guns? yeah