Sidewalks: Portraits of Chicago Book

Preface     ix
Morning on Maxwell     2
A Life on the Water     4
The Flock of Fifty-Third     6
A Good Walk Unspoiled     8
High on Religion     10
Running the Tables     12
Post no Belles     14
Clean Machines     18
Nine Lives to Live     20
Healing and Hope     22
Big Big Man     24
The Man on the Porch     26
Biking in Blizzards     28
A Bloody Good Pub     30
Somewhere     32
Making a Splash     34
Just Plain Folk     36
In the Corn     38
The Kids of Summer     40
One Very Big Bat     42
Hot Coffee, Cool Cats     44
And Now     46
Barn Again     48
Memories of a Blue Bike     50
And They're Off     52
Decades of Grunts     56
My Lover the Car     58
Giving Back     60
Spicy Surprises     62
Little Big Man     64
Ethan's Little Secret     66
Underground Books     68
Sundaysin Saloons     70
Urban Beasts     72
Uptown Guy     74
C'mon In-Really     76
Two Stories, No Waiting     78
Skull Session     80
A Life in Three Acts     82
Poetry in Commotion     84
Follow the Bouncing Ball     88
When the Mood Strikes     90
The Collector     92
Keeping Pace With Mustangs     94
Boo's Soul Kitchen     96
Taking it to the Streets     98
Writing on the Wall     100
A Taste of Cotton Candy     102
No Place Like Home     104
Set 'Em Up     106
A Cat and Mouse Story     108
Kids Stuff     110
Jazz and Guns     112
Of Bar Stools and Barbershops     114
Hope in Hammond     116
Keeping the Faith     120
Adventures in the Skin Trade     122
Life At a Buck a Bag     124
Rough Road     126
Innocence of the Cows     128
The Fixers     130
Rocky at Royko's Grove     132
Hot Dog Fever     134
Art of the State      136
A Street-Smart Fellow     138
Winter wonderlands     140
Making a Mark     142
Tito Gets a Haircut     144
The Roadside Gallery     148
A Thriving Five-and-Ten     150
A Refugee's Lasting Legacy     152
A Cold Day in Paradise     154
The Death of Big Kitty     156
The Sands of Time     158
Uneasy Neighbors     160
The Oldest Library     162
Happy Endings     164
Creatures of the Beach     166
A Toothpick Titanic     168
Well Traveled     170
A Patch of Peace     172
In a Day's Work     174
Life and Death on the River     176
Ham and Fromage     178
Any Way the Wind Blows     180
A Novel Garden     184
When in Roma's     186
Still Tough     188
Words to Live By     190
Meet the Doughnut Man     192
Local Literature     194
Saloons in the Sky     196
Written on the Rocks     198
Eating at Joe's     200
Hooked on Ice     202
The Battle of Balbo     204
What's for Frokost?     208
Dubious Honors     210
The Quick Brown Fox     212
A Touch of the Past     214
Loving Bonnie     216
Of Bullets and Bricks     218
A Winning Meal Ticket     220
The Way Things Were     222
An Ode to Bologna     224
Mr. Barber     226
A Deadly Shortcut     228
American Dreamer     230
A Cop Who Loved Music     232
A Big Hug     234
The Last Beach     236
On the Road to Nowhere     238
New Voices in the Park     240
Acknowledgments     243