These 5 locations are among the 69 on CBA’s The Coast of Chicago Map, Stuart Dybek‘s collection of Lower West Side short stories.
If you are inspired to take a virtual tour while you read, you can find the book here. In non-Covid 19 times you can contact CBA for a custom guided bike ride and gift certificates, or use The Map to plan your own ride, run, or walk.
Grief – [Kapusta] had dropped out of school again and was loading trucks at night for UPS.
Nostalgia – The viaduct walls had been painted into a mural that seemed to go for miles.
Blight – Our neighborhoods at least had identities, like Back of the Yards, Marquette Park, Logan Square, Greektown.
Nostalgia – …[Manny & Eddie] walked from St. Roman’s to St. Michael’s,…from there to St. Casimir’s, a towering, mournful church with twin copper-green towers.
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