Spoken like a true West Coast native.

I've been there twice, only once by choice, and I think about Seattle more than Chicago.

Hell I think about Gary Indiana more than Chicago.

Everybody that leaves Chicago can't stop thinking about it.

Honestly me too. I think a big part of it is cultural. With LA you have Hollywood, skate culture, and a music scene that dominated the last 3 decades or so, etc, and NYC, well, it's NYC. For a while Chicago was the center of the jazz world when jazz was the mainstream, but that was probably over a hundred years ago. I hear Chicago's nice, but that's basically all I hear, I really don't know what goes on over there these days compared to a lot of other American cities.