Chicago headed back to 1920?

For decades after 1950, Chicago was headed towards becoming a modern-day LA or Houston. Sure, downtown remained fairly healthy with highrise development, but otherwise developers had their way, and highways were carved through town. Strip centers were built, auto-oriented development raped its way into historic neighborhoods. But now Chicago is entering a new phase. Strip mall development is more regulated. There is a new zoning ordinance. Mixed-use development is back in a big way, and new houses/flats/condos are looking like they looked 80 years ago. There is once again a new crop of buildings with ground-level retail, and the old commercial thoroughfares are back. New pedestrian-oriented thoroughfares are being built. Transit is getting revamped. Ridership is slowly, but surely, starting to rise. Okay, so the industrial city is mostly gone, but it is being replaced with the world city. Money and pride are going back into the core in away that has not been seen in nearly a century. And most notably, the south side is making a great comeback. Vacant ghettos and industrial land are being redevoped, mostly in the form of urbanism that first defined Chicago and its neighborhoods. Despite the fact that much of the architecture is new, a thought comes to mind: Will Chicago begin to look the way it did in the 1920's? Is Chicago reversing the tides of decline, loss, and suburbanization to finally reach (and soon exceed) a high point that it once achieved decades ago?>