Imagine driving near Chicago’s Mount Carmel Cemetery and seeing a woman wearing a white wedding dress walking along the road. It’s rainy and muddy, and yet she seems untouched by all of it. You would be seeing the Italian Bride, one of Chicago’s most famous ghosts. But who was she, and why does her ghost […]
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The driver leaned forward in his seat, squinting through the windshield at the road in front of him. The sun had just dipped below the horizon, casting Chicago in a midnight blue gloom made darker by the steady rain. As he drove along Harrison Street, the cemetery began to come up on his right. That
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History is a forgetful creature. While there is much about our past that we know, there is so much more that we don’t. If the stories aren’t written, or aren’t passed down through the generations in their retelling, then the knowledge is often lost. Sometimes, though, we catch glimpses of that hidden past. It might
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