I feel like I can't really trust anything on Craigslist now, so I don't really use it. I did post my furniture for free pickup on there last year, but that's been about it in the past ten years. I remembered it being pretty much dead from then, but I just checked it again and it seems to still be getting quite a few posts, so I guess that was just a false memory.

I also used to check it for software jobs way back in the day, and got a couple interviews from it, but that seems totally dead now. I see 5 postings in the software jobs section, and none of them are anywhere close to Chicago.