Living in the Chicago area, literally the ONLY BAD THING I have heard about this game is
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY IS ___ NOT HERE WHY IS ___ HERE"
which is summed up to: Schools didn't want their campus in game where the idea of students getting hurt is possible, or they didn't have the rights to it, like museums, etc. And generally speaking, Chicagoland in general, is GIGANTIC if you were to include all the suburbs, etc. It would probably also get repetitive.
At least, this is what I'm assuming.
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But that's literally the only thing I've heard against it and it's kind of baffling.
Ya know now that you mention it I don't think I've ever played an open world game that had a school. Which is a good thing because the last thing I want is school shooting simulator 2014.