The ants go marching

One by one.

Hurrah! Hurrah!

And the little one stops to … ?

(W.Addison/N.Wolcott, Lincoln Park, Chicago.)

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Shorty ♥s Mookie

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It was an epic neighborhood love affair.

He lived east of Clark, she was west of Ridge—far more than the three-block walk that separates “chilled to the bone” from “call an ambulance, he’s gonna lose some toes!” during Chicago’s harsh winters.

Frigid winds off of Lake Michigan and the too-long wait for the ‘L’ or a bus have squashed the greatest romances of braver souls, but these star-crossed lovers held onto their passion through a long Chi-town chill. Somehow, Mookie and Shorty made it work.

As a testament to their eternal love, Shorty wrote their names in wet cement that spring.

Two weeks later, Mookie left him for his best friend Tiny.

(Somewhere in Rogers Park, Chicago.)

Faces from long, long ago

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Once upon a time, in the neighborhood of Rogers Park, someone carved happy faces into the sidewalk.

(1600 block of W. Jarvis, Rogers Park, Chicago.)