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My name is David G. Clark. I was born and raised near Chicago in northwestern Indiana. My mother was from the northwest side of Chicago, and my father was from Joliet, so I guess Route 66 was in my blood!
I moved to Chicago in 1980 and by 1982 I was working as a parking garage manager on Adams Street (westbound 66). I met my future wife, Carol, who worked in the bank in the same building, and on our first night out after work we went to several watering holes along Adams. Ours was a Route 66 romance, even though we did not know it at the time!
Carol was a native Chicagoan, and when we fell on hard times in the early 1990s and could not afford to travel for vacation, we decided to start exploring Chicago as if we were tourists. What better way to save money on vacation than spending time in your home town, acting like a visitor? Thanks to our love of the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the Art Institute, we became well-versed in area history.