My Father Tries to Teach Me His Map of Chicago - Los Angeles Weekly Times

My Father Tries to Teach Me His Map of Chicago - Los Angeles Weekly Times

The Bus Chasers by Maggie Andersen My father is a man of shortcuts and a mental map of Chicago. He has never needed a paper map or a GPS, has never relied on a cell phone for navigation. He knows how to get anywhere in the city in under twenty minutes, and when you give him an address, he has the easiest route calculated within seconds, and a story to go with it. Sometimes his information is outdated: he thinks a neighborhood is still a Polish e…

My Father Tries to Teach Me His Map of Chicago - Electric Literature

The Bus Chasers by Maggie AndersenMy father is a man of shortcuts and a mental map of Chicago. He has never needed a paper map or a GPS, has never relied on a cell phone for navigation. He knows how to get anywhere in the city in under twenty minutes, and when you give him an address, he has the easiest route calculated within seconds, and a story to go with it. Sometimes his information is outdated: he thinks a neighborhood is still a Polish en…