The audience was waiting outside, in front of the doors of the Lyric Chicago opera. The Civic Opera House is a 1929 structure with a beautiful Art Deco interior. That night, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut was on. November 2005. Le public attendait à l’extérieur, devant les portes de l’opéra lyrique de Chicago. La Civic Opera House…

I thought these three men I saw under a viaduct, were volunteers from the Salvation Army but I am no longer sure about this… November 2005. J’ai pensé que ces trois hommes aperçus sous un viaduc, étaient des volontaires de l’Armée du Salut mais je n’en suis plus aussi certain… Novembre 2005.