As per my wife's review:
Worst place ever
1. The host didn't specify the specific location of the apartment until a last-minute message was later provided. We thought unit 2 was the second door of what was presented in the photo. When the keypad to get the door key didn't work, we asked the host for help by calling and waiting on a response via several direct messages in the app. Justin later responded to my wife to text only as he was busy. After finally getting a link that says where the unit was and it was a door that goes to the basement.
2. After walking into the apartment, we first noticed a broken dining table that we couldn't at least make usable for dinner with our in-laws who were with us during a one-night stay. My wife was disappointed after finding out that Justin knew about the table beforehand from his previous AirBnB guests with the intention of fixing it. The whole family ended up eating standing up around the breakfast bar for dinner.
3. No instruction or control of the temperature. The basement was way too cold for us and didn't have any instruction to adjust the temperature. It was a hot summer night and we had to gear up with wool socks and jackets to go to bed. There were no thermostats to control this so we closed up the vent and put napkins around to make sure we don't get a cold overnight.
4. The floor was dusty enough get our feet blackened. The host asked to take our shoes off but the place wasn't clean enough to walk around with bare feet so we had our wool socks on that we used as indoor slippers.
5. 1:45 am waking up from a party upstairs that you can hear a word by word what they are saying. They were drunk, singing, and loud as if they were having a party right next to my bedroom. Not soundproof or noise-dampening at all.
If the host gave us some warnings or what to expect, we may have had enough information to workaround or book another place. It was absolutely a horrible staying at this place and would not want to return. Chicago seems to be a fickle city to find a good place. We paid too much for an entire unit that should have been cheaper, we wished the host would accommodate with us some heads up and workarounds.