First, Chicago is not the best city in the country. Only reason NW is a top school is because they are near Chicago so they have an unlimited amount of clients for their students to learn how to become defense attorneys.Would be either there, Stanford, or Duke, definitely.
Northwestern - relatively quick train to the best city in the country. Most successful football program.
Stanford - Cali. Some success.
Duke - if you want to be in the southeast. UNC chicks
Without question Stanford is above Northwestern just because even if you don’t graduate you are guaranteed a great job anywhere from Texas to the west coast.
But @AlaskaGuy told me Washington is where the brightest kids in the country go.