Overrated/Underrated Chicago: city life

Overrated Logan Square
It's a cool neighborhood, okay? But it's not the only neighborhood in which to open a restaurant. Got that, restaurateurs?
Underrated Edgewater
You like low rent prices? Being able to walk to a beautiful, uncrowded beach? Using the lakefront path without getting run down by a biker? Ethiopian food? Move here.

Overrated St. Patrick’s Day
Stupid-drunk amateurs. In the cold.
Underrated Thanksgiving
it's a holiday that's just about food, family and being grateful. But mostly food. Sadly, it's increasingly becoming the day when people get in fights over half-price TVs at Walmart.

Overrated Richie Daley
We'd be lying if we didn't say we found the boorish behavior of our politicians somewhat endearing. Our second Daley did many wonderful things for our town, but his career also featured a litany of nepotism, palm greasing and political favors. Then again, when you run the City of Chicago for 22 years, those things are as inevitable as snowfall. Thing is, he was in office for so damn long, most of us forgot there were mayors not named Daley.
Underrated Jane Byrne  
Our first and only female mayor was a trailblazer—and remains largely forgotten if you ask your average Chicagoan under the age of 40. She was the first mayor to march in the Pride Parade. She passed the first ban on handgun possession, stretched the Blue Line to O'Hare, launched the Taste and envisioned Navy Pier. Quite recently, the city has started to show her some love. The Circle Interchange, the circuitous intersection of the Dan Ryan and Eisernhower expressways, will be named in her honor. Er, how about a park instead?