https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/categories/chapter-20--hunter-operations/Recent content in Chapter 20 — Hunter Operations on Chicago ChroniclesHugoen-usWed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/the-hunters/Wed, 06 Feb 1991 17:10:00 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/the-hunters/<p><em>Kaspar &amp; Sons (Pilsen) / Pilsen rooftop / <a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/locations/settebello/">Settebello</a> (<a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/npcs/helena-taylor/">Taylor</a> Street) / Lake Shore Drive</em></p> <p><em>Chicago, Illinois</em></p> <hr> <p>The skull was on the rooftop of a five-flat at 18th and Loomis. Staked through the temple to a tar-and-gravel roof with a length of iron rebar, fire-blackened front and back, jaw wired shut with copper. Two crossed lines drawn around it in chalk and chicken blood. A serpent. A cane. Asson, asson, asson. <a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/darius-cole/">Darius</a> didn&rsquo;t recognize the marks but he recognized the work — a thing meant to be found, and meant to be understood as found.</p>