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Chicago has the best of everything: restaurants, architecture, people, weather, jobs, list goes on and on. It's certainly the most underrated city in America and overshadows other large cities like NYC.

 
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Chicago has the best of everything: restaurants, architecture, people, weather, jobs, list goes on and on. It's certainly the most underrated city in America and overshadows other large cities like NYC.

Don't try so hard. The Op is asking about finance-related, which 2 posters have already covered so I won't repeat them. As far as IBD there's no group that is known to be there unlike say, Energy in Houston. I know some BB's have sell groups there as well for their investment portfolio groups.

 

You gotta be joking, right? Chicago weather is horrendous, even worse than NYC. The winters there are unbearable.

There's some top-notch restaurants, but overall their food scene can't hold a candle to NYC. And the nightlife is mediocre, just a bunch of dull midwestern people drinking miller lite at the various sports bars in lincoln park and wrigelyville. And when it comes to girls, you can't even compare it to a city like L.A.

 
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You gotta be joking, right? Chicago weather is horrendous, even worse than NYC. The winters there are unbearable.

There's some top-notch restaurants, but overall their food scene can't hold a candle to NYC. And the nightlife is mediocre, just a bunch of dull midwestern people drinking miller lite at the various sports bars in lincoln park and wrigelyville. And when it comes to girls, you can't even compare it to a city like L.A.

^I cant agree more with you. Going to a school in mid-west, i go to chicago more often than i want to. The weather is miserable, nightlife is average, people are nice but only if u like midwestern culture...The only nice area is gold coast, it is my fav place in the summer. Very cute, very relaxing, very peaceful. but its like in further north and is far from most financial firms in chicago. IBD is all abt Auto, Industrial, Consumer...but analysts are generalists instead of putting into a specific group. so if u want a so-called well-rounded experience, u may try here.

 

Think about it... Forex and Chicago??? Forex centers are Tokyo/Singapore, London (largest) & NY. IBD? Can't hold a candle to NY. HF? NY/Stamford

As people mentioned before, because of the CBOT, CME, etc it is a options and futures market making center. As such, there are a decent number of quant options shops.

And seriously, the winters are 100x worse than NYC, whoever even thinks otherwise is ridiculous.

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Of course it can't hold a candle to NYC in terms of IBD.

But to clarify, because it appears I need to, what is strong WITHIN Chicago for IB and PE is industrials, automotive, and middle market in general. There are a few big healthcare PE's there too, and a few notable healthcare boutique IBs.

As for the non-finance stuff: there is true shit spoken above (bad winters), and not-so-true shit (women, food, night life). Transportation in general sucks in Chicago, though, whether by car or plane.

 

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