Wabash Avenue
44 E, from 908 N to 12484
"And the family would have to be moving soon. When he'd bought this building,
Wabash Avenue had been a nice, decent, respectable street for a self-respecting
man to live with his family. But now, well, the niggers and kikes were getting
in, and they were dirty, and you didn't know but what, even in broad daylight,
some nigger moron might be attacking his girls."8
Indiana Avenue
200 E from 1200 S to 13765 S
"Then he thought about Indiana Avenue. It was a better street than Wabash. It
was a good block, too, between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth. Maybe when his
old man sold the building he'd buy one in this block. It was nearer to the
stores, and there were Catholics on the street, and in the evening the old man
could sit on the porch talking with Old Man O'Brien, and his old lady could
gossip with Mrs. O'Brien and Dan's mother, and Mrs. Scanlan."9
Washington Park
(pictured above)
"He [Studs] felt as if he was not in Washington Park, but that he and Lucy were in some
place else, a some place else that was just not Washington Park, but was better
prettier, and no one else knew of it. He glanced about him. He looked at the
grass which slid down to the bank, and at silver-blue lagoon that was so alive,
like it was dancing with the sun. He watched rowboats, the passing people. He
took squints at everything from different angles, and watched them how their
appearances would change, and they would look entirely different."10
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