Hints and tips:
...Smith listens to these tales as she gazes across the Little Calumet River and the green lawns, which are all that are left of the Ton Farm, one of the main UGRR stations in the area (it is now a marina)....
...If you can face the journey, Calumet Fisheries, a small shack on 95th Street, serves some of the best smoked fish I’ve ever had; my favourite is the pepper and garlic salmon....
...This week I’m driving with a friend from Seattle to New York City in that great rite of American travel, the cross-country trip....
...You spent your childhood in Calumet City, Illinois, which borders the city of Chicago. Is it your kind of town? Spiritually, yes. I’m glad I grew up in the Midwest but I don’t think of it as my home....
...A mass of steel girders typical of elevated roads in North America, the 48-year-old Skyway carries traffic just under eight miles across southern Chicago, over the Calumet River and into neighbouring Indiana...
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