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Location: East Central Pennsylvania/ Chicago for 6yrs.
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Chicago of course. Wrigley Field, Deep Dish Pizza, and Chicago-style Hot Dogs. OMG Architecture YES. Its neighborhoods Housing to Downtown Skyscrapers.
Baltimore for best ballpark,for all other, I'm sure all ballparks what those in quality and quantity. Our ballpark is the first modern retro, and is downtown, so location can't be beat.
Best Ballpark: Having been to a few of the listed cities' respective parks, the new Busch Stadium in STL wins without a doubt. Super clean and comfortable, and is surrounded by a crazy fun nightlife area.
Best Pizza: Chicago, not even a contest
Architecture: Chicago's skyscrapers are tough to beat
Beer: St. Louis; Anheuser-Busch, Schlafly, Urban Chestnut, Kraftig, among others
Best ballpark: all of these cities have nice ballparks, but Wrigley is iconic and with the new renovations is starting to mix some modern in. all these cities have good arguments, but I would go with Chicago.
Best Pizza: Chicago, and I hate deep dish. It took me a while to find pizza I liked when I first moved to Chicago. The deep dish overshadows their thin crust options, but there are some awesome pizza joints throughout the city for thin crust lovers.
Best architecture: Overall, I would personally go with Philadelphia. For just downtown I'd pick Chicago, but Philly (and Boston) have the perfect blend on modern-urban and historic. The new architecture is nice, but there is a charm to the historic architecture and when mixed right with modern architecture, it's really nice.
Beer: Kind of hard to judge on city-level but I'd probably go with St. Louis. There are some great breweries there, and I loved their downtown scene with there bar-restaurant options.
Best ballpark: Chicago (Wrigley)
Best pizza: Chicago or St. Louis, depending on which style you prefer.
Architecture: They all have good architecture
Hot dogs: I love a Chicago dog, so I guess Chicago?
Beer: For craft beer, I'd say Chicago. It'd got a ton of craft breweries, with more opening all the time. St. Louis isn't bad though (I quite like Schlafly).
Whiskey and Clubs: I'd have no idea
Neighborhoods: Chicago and Philadelphia have pretty strong neighborhood identities, and both have very desirable neighborhoods on the national scale about which many people know.
Best Ballpark- Baltimore for just the ballpark itself. Most new baseball stadiums are based on its design.
Pizza-Still say Philly, sorry Chicago.
Architecture-Philly but Chicago for skyscrapers
Hotdog- Chicago?
Beer- Philly or Chicago
Whiskey and Clubs- Chicago?
Neighborhoods- Philadelphia
Agreed. When it comes to regular style pizza (neopolitan), Philly has better pizza then Chicago. However, I haven't tried Chicago deep dish but it would have to blow my socks off to put Chicago higher than Philly.
Agreed. When it comes to regular style pizza (neopolitan), Philly has better pizza then Chicago. However, I haven't tried Chicago deep dish but it would have to blow my socks off to put Chicago higher than Philly.
There are actually tons of places in Chicago that serve multiple types of pizza, including Neapolitan style. It just happens to be that Chicago also has, and is known for, deep dish. There's even a Chicago-style thin crust that is popular.
Baseball Park - all are great but slight edge to Baltimore
Architecture - For downtown its Chicago, fore nabes its Philly (all of the cities have good architecture)
Pizza - Chicago
Hot dogs - Chicago
Beer - not a beer drinker but it feels like St Louis is the right choice here
Whiskey- ?
clubs - ? Although Chicago has a great bar scene and so does the other cities
Nabes - torn between Chicago and Philly. I would say its a tie
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OMG Architecture YES. Its neighborhoods Housing to Downtown Skyscrapers. 
