Hey I saw Hank Jr. play at Grant Park in 1996.
So Chicago is safe and awesome.
No worries. Everything is the same.
I wouldn’t wander around Chicago on a bet, then or now. It was my observation while overseas that few places were nearly as bad as an inner city in America.
Ghana is the size of Oregon, Looking at those stats I’d wander all over Ghana again in a heartbeat if the opportunity arose, Togo too. Benin? Blink and you’ll miss it. Nigeria, ya gotta be careful. To the west Cote d’Ivoire had a shooting war not too far back too.
Up north Ouagadougou was always the destination of choice (I never made it, sadly) but now radical Muslims are a thing up there.