Hotel Lincoln: A Vintage Reboot in the Windy City

Brooke Preston — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:30:53 +0000

I was in day six of a truly epic sinus meltdown on a recent trip to Chicago; by the time I reached the Hotel Lincoln and its valet parking, I’d completely lost my voice and found myself reduced to a specter of balled-up tissues and glassy TheraFlu eyes. Mercifully, parking was discounted from $52 to $25 with the $95-plus-tax deal I’d purchased from the British site Secret Escapes. I happily paid up—it was a sign of good things to come. […]

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The Train that Carried the Great Migration

Flung — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:40:37 +0000

In this excerpt from Tom Zoellner’s excellent book, Train, the author recalls the historical rail route of the ‘Great Migration’ of the 20th century, when black Americans traveled from the deep south by the millions, seeking opportunity in the big industrial cities of the north, Chicago most notably. The Cardinal flew through old cattle corridors and the dingy suburbs of Calumet City and Riverdale, past stacked intermodal containers and shattered factory shells and scarred oaks and then into the diametrical rows of […]

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Hotel Lincoln: A Vintage Reboot in the Windy City

The Train that Carried the Great Migration