If you put in the time, you can find gems like this. Stepping into Matthew's apartment was like stepping into the past - Airbnb's past, when it was a community of hosts and travelers, and before it become the booking agent for management companies and remote investor-owners offering sterile dull accommodation and robotic interaction. Matt actually greeted me in person!! He was super responsive, and even took on some personal inconvenience to cheerfully accommodate my early arrival (hey, you gotta get out of LaGuardia early before the flights back up). At the time, he was offering free passes to the nearby Mus*eum of Con-tem-por-ary Art. 5 out of 5 for the host. I can tell you it's hard to find a good AirBnb in downtown Chicago, and this is one of them. The apartment is what we call "pre-war" in NYC (WWII). It has moldings, high ceilings, with arched windows overlooking the lake from the living room, wood floors shiny with a coat of polyurethane and authentically creaky. Full kitchen and eat in kitchen with a table for five or six people I think (I ate looking out those windows in the living room). Fine if a little small bathroom off the master, and I could have used more than one shower towel. 5/5 for the apartment. Really great location north of the river - Ubers were about $10-15 to get to Grant Park. There is also a great Cuban restaurant (Cafe*cito) right in the building so you don't have to exit the building to enter it - helpful for breakfast on those very rare occasions when weather in Chicago is biting. So it was nice to get back to living like a local in someone else's place - the long lost Airbnb ethos. 5/5 for location, so the stay gets a 15 out of 15. Normally I list a few things that might bother you, but did not bother me, but Matthew's apartment has none of those. I'll be back if he'll have me.