Archive for September 2007
The Crucible
The Chicago Public Library picked The Crucible as the Fall 2007 selection for One Book, One Chicago. Writing The Crucible in 1952, Arthur Miller presents the Salem witch trials as a mirror by which to reflect the anti-communist hysteria embodied by Senator Joseph McCarthy. But more than that, the play—like so many Arthur Miller plays—revolves […]
Sin in the Second City
At the turn of the 20th Century, the sisters Ada and Minna Everleigh ran one of the most upscale brothels in Chicago: the Everleigh Club. The house, decorated with perfumed fountains, mirrored ceilings and a $15,000 gold-leafed piano in the Music Room, stood at 2131-2133 South Dearborn Street, not far from where Whirl and I […]
Blaze
The short biography of Richard Bachman– written in 1984– states, “Bachman was a fairly unpleasant fellow who was born in New York and spent about ten years in the merchant marine after four years in the Coast Guard. He ultimately settled in rural central New Hampshire, where he wrote at night and tended to his […]
