For every person that says there is too much noise, too much police concentration, too much drinking in the downtown area, there are 10 people who are walking from establishment to establishment having a safe and fun evening.
It's not always the same in Chicago or other nightlife areas.
Lesson here: Live a little, let others do the same and let a pint of beer dribble down your chin one night instead of complain about how your tax dollars are being used.
I'm a stupid moron who hates NOISE. I hate being woke up due to stupid drunk people. HURR LOOK AT ME BEING A KILLJOY.
Eli,
I don't happen to like the smell of pigs, so I don't live on or near a pig farm. I don't like drunks waking me so I don't live downtown. As far as I can tell, no one either forced you to live downtown, nor did the downtown grow up around you. You have no right to complain and every right to move.