There are sections of Chicago, the guidebooks don't refer to. You can't blame them, really.

The guidebooks function is to sell the glamour and excitement of our windy city,

and whichever way you dress it up, old age is neither glamorous nor exciting.

Roosevelt Heights used to be a plush neighborhood, but the plush neighbors moved up town leaving the old people.

And old people don't move easily. They become set in their

surroundings. Their friends live next door. They've been going to the same store for

25 years. And probably most important of all, they can't afford to relocate even if they wanted to

The battle of fixed income versus galloping inflation never ends but even inflation took a back seat here in Roosevelt Heights as a far greater fear overtook the residence

A terror which effectively dwarfed everything else

October 14th one Harry Starman was about to break the law he'd done it before many times

gambling on Friday night was forbidden by Hebrew law so to escape his wife and to escape going to temple

Harry and his cohorts took drastic measures.

There were other residents of Roosevelt Heights. The locals had tried to get rid of them a couple of times,

but what would the fact that the garbage collection wasn't as efficient as it could have been?

They just hadn't been too successful. Best phone. Do you mind if I cut? Chief?

You mind if I cut?

Oh, cut.

Good, cut.

What are you? Chief?

Your late.

What's with the leg?

I start to get this.

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