[sk5t]

Maybe you are thinking of Detroit... Chicago's doing pretty well economically and culturally.

Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas are not known for the same style of grafty, political-machine corruption as, say, Chicago or NYC Tammany Hall. The former two don't internally operate at the same scale as a Chicago and I doubt most of the rest of the US cares about their internal goings-on.

[lotsofmangos]

With the comment about running out of money, I had got Chicago confused with Detroit. Sorry to anyone that this may annoy.

[robotgod]

Depends on which culture you're talking about. The southside is still a disaster.