Six Stories on a Dog’s Parallelogram
The nighttime view of Chicago from either the observation decks at either the John Hancock Center or the Willis Tower reveals Chicagoland to be a grid of twinkling pearls stretching out into the Illinois prairie. But then every once in a while this logical perfection is disturbed by streetlights that insist on going all diagonal. Whether it’s politics (Kennedy Expressway), or greed (Ogden Avenue), or history (Clark Street)...