For season two, ‘Love Is Blind’ comes to Chicago to hook up some ‘good, solid people’

The singles on “Love Is Blind” can’t see one another as they interact in “pods” separated by a frosted glass wall. | Netflix

For South Side native Jarrette Jones, dating in Chicago required fighting against the city’s uncanny tendency to feel like a small town.

“You may have been involved with someone who is connected with someone else — it makes [dating] a bit hard at times because people don’t want to [then] get involved with you,” Jones says. “You may have had past relations, been talking to or dated someone they were friends with.”