City of the Surreal

     This is Chicago.  We're known the world over as the Second City, City of Big Shoulders, Skyscraper Capital of the World, a town of legendary corruption, as well as many other monikers.  But among all those things, we've also had some pretty weird stuff go down in the past 177 years.  Some of it I've written about(Al Capone's Vault, fisticuffs at Wrigley, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Disco Demolition Night) but some of it we haven't.  Over the next 7 days, I'll be taking you on a tour of some of Chicago's more surreal stories, events, and people. These stories range in setting from the 1880s to just 2 weeks ago, and other times in between.  But whenever they took place, they are all surreal in one way or another.  Stay tuned for the first entry later today, as well as entries throughout the week.  Cheers!