You'd be surprised. Maybe not Chicago, but there are a lot of cities with zero grocery stores. It was big news in my Midwestern city when a Meijer went in downtown because people living downtown used to have to drive or take the bus outside of the city to do their grocery shopping.
It's always a big question in my city, "can you live here without a car?" and most of it has historically hinged on grocery shopping.
It's always a big question in my city, "can you live here without a car?" and most of it has historically hinged on grocery shopping.