https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/categories/chapter-3--ashes-to-ashes-pt.-2/Recent content in Chapter 3 — Ashes to Ashes, Pt. 2 on Chicago ChroniclesHugoen-usWed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/hells-pasture/Fri, 04 Jan 1991 16:28:00 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/hells-pasture/<p><em><a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/locations/starlite-motel/">Starlite Motel</a> / West Side / <a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/locations/hells-pasture/">Hell&rsquo;s Pasture</a> / <a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/locations/drake-hotel/">Drake Hotel</a></em> <em>Chicago, Illinois — January 4, 1991</em></p> <hr> <p>The body in the bathtub hadn&rsquo;t moved in twelve hours. Same position, same folded arms, same parchment skin pulled tight over Mediterranean cheekbones. <a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/sable-price/">Sable</a> had arranged the hands that way — crossed at the wrists, some instinct about the dead she&rsquo;d picked up from a life spent around people who weren&rsquo;t alive enough to know the difference. The onyx pendant sat in the hollow of the throat. The fluorescent buzzed overhead.</p>