Along the way, these immigrants have sowed the seeds for the city’s open-minded attitude toward, well, everything. San Francisco has embraced seekers since the Gold Rush days. This year ground will be broken on the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, a marquee attraction on Chicago’s South Side. Of course the biggest news is the legacy of one family of proud Chicagoans: the Obamas. The hardship of the past 18 months only means the city is spring-loaded to return to its quiet productivity. It’s a surreal real estate plunge for America’s Top 3 city. While real estate prices were left relatively unscathed in cities like San Diego, Phoenix and San José, Chicago hits near the lowest in our rankings for one-year change in median home prices between February 2020 and February 2021. Chicago suffered the worst one-year change in median family income between 20 in the Top 10, and ranks among the bottom of all 100 cities on our list. And what a far fall it’s been, with the city’s residents and prosperity hit the hardest. Its #3 ranking in our Programming category-including #5 in Shopping, #3 in Restaurants and #2 in Nightlife-speaks to the plentiful buzz that Chicago was perfecting before everything ground to a halt. Whether for business or pleasure, the city had been attracting tourism at record-breaking levels year after year. this fall, when the city’s inspiring “Your Comeback Starts Here” campaign is rolled out nationally, a first for the city.įew American cities fell harder in visitor numbers in recent months than Chicago. Amazingly, all nine of LAX’s terminals are in the midst of a $14.3-billion modernization. Adding to L.A.’s #2 Museums ranking is the opening of the visually stunning Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, punctuated with a temporary exhibit of acclaimed artist Hayao Miyazaki. In February 2022, it will host the Super Bowl. The new SoFi Stadium, the largest in the National Football League at 3.1 million square feet, officially opened last fall to host the NFL’s Rams and Chargers home games.
will not be down for long, starting with its #2 Product ranking. But given the pent-up demand to get on with California dreaming, breaking tourism records and rolling out one multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project after another, L.A. cities, and the city sits toward the bottom of this year’s Change in Unemployment Rate subcategory. As of February 2021, the unemployment rate was almost 10%-among the worst numbers of all large U.S. teetered on the verge of the COVID-19 abyss multiple times in 2020 and early 2021. In a city famous for hyperbole, it’s not an overstatement to declare that L.A. “New York City is reawakening, with infrastructure upgrades, a packed cultural calendar, world-class hotels, a new outdoor dining scene, multicultural neighborhoods to explore and many more vibrant offerings on display across all five boroughs this year,” Fred Dixon, president and CEO of NYC & Company, told Resonance in May. But despite this unprecedented everything, some solace from the beforetime.
But its Safety subcategory, which tracks homicides-a point of pride for the city and its boosters in recent years-slipped to #7. The city still ranks #1 in our Place category-tops in the subcategories it has always dominated, like Sights & Landmarks and Top 5 for its natural environs and parks. New York still has the most Fortune 500 headquarters in the nation, but its ranking in this year’s Change in Unemployment Rate subcategory is so low that it now ranks out of the Top 100, at #107. The economic scars are all over the city’s 2021 rankings. As early cases spiked, Gotham became the nation’s nightmarish coronavirus core. The greatest city in America-lauded and crowned in our ranking for the past six years and countless others for many more-was a ghastly reminder during the pandemic of the vulnerability of even the colossal, the seemingly all-powerful we saw here what awaited the rest of the country.
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