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Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known in many cultures. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost. [1] [2] [3]
Front cover of the book. Ghost Boys is a 2018 middle-grade novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Set in Chicago, the novel follows the story of Jerome, a 12-year-old black boy who is shot and killed by a white police officer before coming back as a ghost. [1] Emmett Till, a black boy who was murdered in 1955, features as another ghost in the text ...
"About Boston" by Ward Just. pp. 12–39 in Legal Fictions edited by Jay Wishingrad, 1992, reprinted from 21 Selected Stories by Just (1990). The story contrasts Boston and Chicago. "Big Boy," pp. 97–99 in Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris begins "It was Easter Sunday in Chicago....", 2000; Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by ...
Straight history of the Exposition and also the workers' paradise in Pullman is found in James Gilbert's Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893. Mike Royko's Boss (1971), written by a Chicago Daily News columnist, is a biography of the powerful mayor Richard J. Daley. The book provides a critical look at Daley's rise to power and at Chicago ...
There's plenty of White House hauntings on the list -- with a few former first ladies still roaming inside America's most famous house. Former U.S. president John Adams and his wife Abigail were ...
At Swim, Two Boys: Jamie O'Neill: Ireland: 2001 Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories: Chris Crutcher: United States: 1991 Baby Be-Bop: Francesca Lia Block: United States: 1995 Boy Meets Boy: David Levithan: United States: 2003 Boyfriends with Girlfriends: Alex Sánchez: United States: 2011 Call Me by Your Name: André Aciman: United States: 2007 ...
In 1988, at just 12 years old, Martin Pistorius' health started to decline. He soon went into a coma-like state for 12 years, but now he's awake and telling an amazing story. Pistorius says while ...
"The Phantom Brakeman" - 1933". While Mary Alice is recently idolizing a tap dancer and film actress Shirley Temple, mismatched families of local lovers converge on Grandma's house and she uses an old ghost story to aid them. At night time Vandalia Eubanks and Junior Stubbs run away together with the help of "The Phantom Brakeman" (Joey) and ...