Yep, UIC is a school like that as well (academically on par with or better than some flagships).
The old CCNY in NYC too.
However, there doesn’t seem to be a huge demand by high-achieving American kids for that type of environment these days.
For that matter, German kids may not actually prefer that model either, but that’s the one they are stuck with. Government entities restrict how much public German unis (and the good ones are pretty much all public) can charge.