So we knew for a while before leaving on vacation that on the return trip we would try to shoot through Chicago on the way. I spent some time online researching the neighborhood that we lived in till the age of nine, and was pretty sure that not much would be left after 40 years. One thing that I wanted to do was to go to Q's pizza in Hillside Ill, which was the favorite takeout place back in the day. It was still there and still as it was then, although the pizza was not as amazing as I remembered....local neighborhood shop has raised the bar.
KInd of by accident, we wound up in the vicinity of the boyhood home, so on a whim I decided to try to find it. We went around the block a few times and then at the last moment found the right area , the right street and YES! the right house. I was wired like a fool and kinda charged the place with camera in hand. It turns out that I met the guy whose parents bought the house from my folks. Thay are refurbing the little place instead of ripping it down and putting up a rich-people house like a lot of the houses on the block. We got to go in and explore the place....the kids got to crawl through tha attic passage from one bedroom to the other just like we did when we were kiddos. How crazy. Sometimes you can go home.....and home is like it should be.-Paul
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