I finally decided to read The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson, this week after seeing a feature about it on the WGN Chicago 9 o'clock news. It is about the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, and serial killer H.H. Holmes, who murdered scores of young women who came to Chicago to visit the fair. The 1893 World's Colombian Exposition took place on Chicago's South Side, in Jackson Park, along the shores of Lake Michigan. Holmes "torture palace" was at 63rd and Wallace Street, just a few blocks from St. Bernard's Hospital, where yours truly was born. The book is a fascinating look at the City of Chicago back in the 1890s, the movers and shakers who built the fair, and the charming and sinister Holmes. Holmes building still exists, by the way, and is now a U.S. Post Office. I don't know if the place is haunted or not, but my guess is that most of the screaming and suffering these days is from Postal Employees. As a former mail carrier, I can relate. Talk about torture.
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