There's a distinct fervent bitterness among the urban intellectual/academic/activist types of Chicago that is only found there. You go to the city to grab a cocktail and try to have a pleasant conversation with them and it's such a negative interaction, like there's a deep anger about another person expressing joy and happiness even while out. It's the despair of a group that has made themselves irrelevant by way of actually having their policies and beliefs drive out capital and intellectually honest forms of art and culture from the city, and therefore, they have nothing to be a critic about.

I appreciate Axios' effort to support building newsrooms outside of NYC/SF/LA, but it looks bad when their name is attached to this kind of petty, small town pissy reporter writing. "I wanted to write about the departure of a local writer I hate, and he declined to comment on my piece, so I included that too!". You leftists can't stop cannibalizing the great city of Chicago can you? There's no intellectual thought left in that city, just a bunch of nonprofit foundation "journalists", you guys won--there's no dissenting opinion left in town-so why aren't you happy?