Chicago black chronicles – Liberation

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Eddie Miles knows the city on the end of the steering wheel. Moreover, It was a child from Chicago who saw the districts transform. Similarly, Some quiet corners have become drug addicts while popular streets have been recovered by sores. For example, He never stops traveling the city in his taxi Skie Blue which he shares with his colleague of the day. Furthermore, He is the night he prefers. For example, even if, for some time, drivers have been killed before dawn without the slightest reason.

Tonight. on Madison, two guards escort a tramp to send it south, a prostitute begs to be let go because chicago black chronicles – liberation it is too cold outside and the cops are nervous when they fall on a kid struck to death, naked and bloody. Some nights, customers round the tip and this is an opportunity to have a drink with colleagues. Other times. they are near and groan about the journey, but Eddie continues, once again trying to avoid the Cabrini-Green city which has so bad reputation. In the newspaper. he learns that his friend Lenny the Polack was shot in turn and life is no longer round.

Night taxi is a great chronicle of everyday life. made up of short, incisive, warm, brutal stories in this city where you don’t make old bones. We think of the remarkable story of Shannon Burke, 911 (titre original : Black flies)published in 2008. The former paramedic also described the nights on bitumen. He worked in Harlem, at the center of the cries, chicago black chronicles – liberation crime scenes, misery. Same precision. same reluctance emotion, same empathy for the poorest, or the old ratators, who will end up in the taxi of Eddy Miles. At the end of the night, the driver will always find himself there. At worst. tomorrow, he will disgust a good race by leaving the bars until closing and will end on the side of the old towers of the Loop to stay a moment to scrutinize the city extended in front of him “With the lake in a dark and soothing background”. Then it will be time to go back and try to sleep when Chicago wakes up.