answer:I’m sure that Chicago has its problems, aside from the gun violence in the strictest-gun-laws-in-the-nation idiocy (and other things that go along with that kind of blindness to facts), and including a lot of fiscal problems, as most other cities and states have and have had for a long time. But Detroit has been skidding downhill for decades. Take a look at some of this. Undoubtedly Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and other cities large and small (even Boston, I suppose) have their share of ruin, but in Detroit this kind of neglect and decrepitude is pretty common. (It was common when I visited there in the late 1980s to see a jobsite, and I hear from my in-laws who live in Michigan that it was not uncommon in the late 1960s when they lived near there.)