Five photos from CBA’s The Spook Who Sat by the Door Map
Take a virtual tour of the 60 locations mentioned in Sam Greenlee’s 1969 spy/resistance novel, visit them on your own, or leave the planning to me. Contact CBA for custom guided bike rides that include these sites and for gift certificates. The Spook Who Sat by the Door is also just one layer of many on The Map where you can plan your own ride, run, or walk around Chicago.
The neighborhood tension grows – The clatter of the El was present as it moved south toward Englewood
In response to the resistance – [The] National Guard Unit had taken over the Washington Park recreation center for their headquarters and command post…in front of the swimming pool…built by the WPA.
Dan Freeman knows why the location of the resistance concerns the authorities – …there were whites in the big housing development near the hospital on Thirty-first which had replaced the slums..
Dan out, acting his part – He ran into Joy in the bar of the Parkway ballroom…
After being dosed with acid – The colonel was found alive as promised, seated on the edge of the reflection pool of the Fountain of Time…
Contact CBA for a custom guided ride that includes some of these sights and for gift certificates for the cyclists in your life. Also, this map is just one layer of many on The Map, where you can plan your own ride, run, or walk around Chicago.