I'm not sure what the sins of Chicago and elsewhere have to do with the color of our local society.  I suppose a bullet to the head is paradise compared to a machine gun to the head?  Or, dumping in cane fields is more acceptable than burials in highrise concrete foundations?  While I can believe that there are Chicagoans loving "Chicago-lost" -- preserved as best possible, similar nostalgia here can't immunize social indictment.  The early 19th century native Hawaiian population was once the most literate in the colonized world.  But read history of Hawaii's corrupt society as a whole at the time "under the global financial elite empire with what was once 95% of the world’s military might."  What makes you think things have changed????