I feel like Chicago just played a part as a universal metaphor for a democratic urban city anywhere in the world.
I feel like Chicago’s a metaphor for economic subterfuge, for both corruption and success at creating an amazing city.
It’s a melting pot of cultures.
And what they did with the script, to be able to split that between the quest for power of the male species [laughs] all the way up the wrung of government down to the individuals selling drugs on the street corners, trying to survive — and then splitting that in half, showing the quest for women trying to survive in this realm.