I am tearing my hair out over this one and it should be so simple.
My MC is living in Chicago. He's a gambler/ex-con/opportunist and doesn't always make rent, though I don't think he'd live in a complete hole (he doesn't always lose). His apartment needs a fire escape.
He's mostly Italian a couple of generations back, but is Jewish on his mother's mother's side--and she's the one who raised him. I'm hoping there's an urban area that might combine these two cultural groups---if not presently, at least maybe two generations back?
I need to get him from his apartment (down the fire escape) onto a bus and from the bus to an El station, and from there, hopefully, to North Michigan Avenue, but I don't know where his apartment should be, so I don't know what station or lines he needs to use.
Can anyone help me figure out where this guy could live?
My MC is living in Chicago. He's a gambler/ex-con/opportunist and doesn't always make rent, though I don't think he'd live in a complete hole (he doesn't always lose). His apartment needs a fire escape.
He's mostly Italian a couple of generations back, but is Jewish on his mother's mother's side--and she's the one who raised him. I'm hoping there's an urban area that might combine these two cultural groups---if not presently, at least maybe two generations back?
I need to get him from his apartment (down the fire escape) onto a bus and from the bus to an El station, and from there, hopefully, to North Michigan Avenue, but I don't know where his apartment should be, so I don't know what station or lines he needs to use.
Can anyone help me figure out where this guy could live?