Friday, August 31, 2018

Places of Interest

North Side


  • Dill Pickle Club
    • Centerpiece of Tower Town bohemian scene
    • Dive serves as tearoom, lecture hall, speakeasy, theater of poets, artists, hobos, social workers, writers, mobsters, radicals, and anarchists.
    • Talk of the this part of town is Mr. Electrico and Kid Montenga
    • You saw a brutal murder here of John Collins, a mobster affiliated with Bugs Moran. Claude Maddox was the man who beat John to death in front of Cecil and Anne-Marie
  • Marigold Hotel 
    • This is where you are staying while in Chicago. Located 815 W. Grace street.
    • The penthouse suite is owned by Ted Newbury, a capo for Bugs Moran. Gorilla is his 7'2" body guard. Big man with a little hat.
  • Lions Den
    • Underneath the Marigold Hotel is one of the classiest Speakeasies you saw so far. The alcohol keeps flowing all night long here. It has 3 stories with plenty of seating and has a giant cage with a well fed male lion in it. The bellhop must be "tipped" to attend this joint.
  • Water Tower
    • While visiting one of the many newspaper outlets, Cecil discovered a bit of a mystery at the old Water Tower located on 806 N. Michigan. It is a weird, medieval-looking limestone tower. It survived the Great Chicago Fire. It holds a 135 foot tall standpipe that helps pressurize and pump drinking and firefighting water. Legend has it a ghost of a hanged man appears off and on in the water tower.


  • Chicago Historical Society
    • Another place that Mr. Lazlo found about when researching the paranormal happenings in the city. This neo-Romanesque pile of red granite looks like a magnificent cross between a castle and a pyramid. It holds artifacts and relics of Chicago and American history, form Columbus anchor to Lincoln's death bed. The Gilpin Library has 75,000 books, plus newspaper volumes, records, and maps. Another Legend says one or more ghosts haunt this building.
    • You spent the night and not only did the dead haunt you but the living. Mr. White paid you a visit and was very upset about the kidnapping of Rube Foster. He mentioned to you to visit him later that next night at an old theater in Bronzeville just south of the Loop.


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