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Room 901, the Silversmith Hotel, Chicago\u00a0 on Jeweler’s Row<\/p>\n
The sun had just slipped below the horizon as we approached downtown Chicago.\u00a0 Red fire glinted off the window walls of the many new skyscrapers in this, the home of the skyscrapers.\u00a0 As the train slid toward Union Station, I felt the city cloak itself around me.\u00a0 I was back.<\/p>\n
I love this city.\u00a0 It was, my first.\u00a0 My first big city.\u00a0 I came here when I was 12 with a United Methodist Church see-it tour.\u00a0 We visited the Chapel in the Sky, the Pacific Garden Mission and saw a lot of the poorer areas of Chicago.<\/p>\n
This is Sister Carrie’s city.\u00a0 The city of the Titan, The Genius.\u00a0 The city of Big Shoulders where the fog creeps in on little cat’s feet.\u00a0 This is an American city, a Midwestern city built on stockyards and the commodity exchange, a collecting point for agricultural goods from the farms of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska.<\/p>\n
The steel mills of Gary used to light up the southern tip of Lake Michigan, you could see them glowing like a peek into the infernal regions.\u00a0 They glowed red with the heat of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.\u00a0 A day now gone by.<\/p>\n
The el encloses the loop and rattles just 7 floors below my hotel room here at the arts and craft decorated Silversmith.\u00a0 This is a boutique hotel very near the Chicago Art Institute.<\/p>\n
I have an appointment in Ada’s Deli, the restaurant here, at 10 tomorrow, then I’m off the Art Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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