Having to sleep in such a place can be tolerable as long as you can still get to the cool parts of Chicago (and if it's that close to the Greyhound station, where I've been, it's VERY cool), you could just spend all day away from home. In a suburb you can't be in the cool parts of Chicago all the time.
Wow. This is so insensitive and idiotic at the same time.
I hope you actually move into an absolutely crime ridden tenement one day to experience life there - I bet that you'll be clamoring for a suburb after that.