The Old Neighborhood — Sunday, 20 January 1991, 4:35 PM

Sun, 20 Jan 1991 16:35:00 +0000

Robert Taylor Homes / CHA Utility Tunnels / Nosferatu Freight Tunnels / South Side

Chicago, Illinois

The Dan Ryan south of Chinatown, rain hardening to sleet against the windshield. No moon — or a moon behind cloud so thick it might as well have been no moon. The city fell away north. Steel mills lit the horizon behind her like a distant war, the way they’d always lit it, the way they’d lit it when she was seven years old riding the bus south from downtown and her mother pointed and said, that’s Gary, and Gary is where things get made, and that’s why it’s ugly. Denise knew things about beauty and ugliness that Sable was still working out.

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The Old Neighborhood — Sunday, 20 January 1991, 4:35 PM