Lithuanian / German ancestry so Eastern European stock.
Parents emigrated as DP's to America and landed on the South side of Chicago in a neighborhood made up of similar people. Made a lot of friends with Irish, Italians, Poles and Slovaks besides.
I experienced the change of Chicago from old man Daley to the lesser Daley. There are many lessons to be learned there.
Now I am making my last stand in suburban Chicago and feeling a lot of kinship with that Indian who observed that the Government should put wheels on them so's to make it easier for them to be moved around. Got knows where my kids and grandkids will wind up. There doesn't seem to be much permanency where I'm at... And that sucks
