Mind Your Valuables

"I got off the bus with two cardboard suitcases under my arms in downtown Chicago and stopped in front of the Sears Tower. I put the suitcases down, and I looked up at the Tower and I said to myself, I'm going to conquer Chicago! When I looked down, the suitcases were gone." --Former heavyweight boxer James (Quick) Tillis, on his arrival in Chicago from his hometown Tulsa

I'm sure Carl Sandburg ("They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys") would have appreciated Tillis' anecdote. Algren too.