Ouatations or hubs, who cares. Find an airline where you would have the less commute to work if thats important for you.
who would want to be ORD based, where the most junior CA line was hired in 2005. what a joke. ****ty weather, ****ty airport, definitely not the place you want to be as a reserve FO or CA unless you live an hour away max, taking into account heavy traffic and blizzards.
I do feel bad for the Chitown crews seeing their flying go away, happened to other bases, will happen to other bases (for the time being, could come back, grow, die, grow again, go away again, die, resurrect, all within a year - welcome to contract airlines where your clients decide where they want the planes and pilots)
I am suspicious RAH keeps, ad will keep, MIA, ORD and some of these dying bases open just for recruiting PR.