I Love Chicago! - Chicago Police Academy Traditional Cache
I Love Chicago!: No sense in making the neighbors mad.
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I Love Chicago! - Chicago Police Academy
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Over the last two decades, several sightings of a Lady in Black have been reported in the area around Maxwell Street in Chicago. The encounters always take place outdoors, and the good-Samaritan spirit appears to be wanting to help people or warn them. I've just received another report from Frank D. Ayers (fdayers@ibm.net): "The year was1969, and I was 20 years old. I was enrolled in the Chicago Police academy, which was located near Maxwell Street and the Dan Expressway. I had been attending the academy for several months and was taking lunch with two other academy students. As we entered a small restaurant in this area, I remember a white lady dressed in all black clothes.
Her dress reminded me of someone from the 1800's, and the reason I mentioned her color is because the area was basically a black neighborhood and seeing a white lady in this area makes this individual encounter even stranger. Now, as I stood in the entryway to the restaurant with my friends on either side of me, this Lady in Black came up to me and looked right into my eyes.
Without a word or hand gesture or even a facial expression, she somehow communicated to me to hand her the pen and small note pad I had in my upper left hand shirt pocket to her. I did just that without knowing exactly why. She took the pen and note pad and wrote something into the note pad. Then she looked at me and shook her head in a gesture of no, no, no. She handed me the pen and note pad and left abruptly. I looked into the note pad and noticed what she wrote: my name and my birth date. But then I also realized that it was in my own handwriting. I quickly turned to my friends and asked them, "Did you see what the lady just did?" They responded to my question as though I was crazy.
"What lady?" They acted as if nothing unusual happened, and we went into the restaurant and had lunch. Well, this strange little encounter stayed with me, and I always felt that I would have to quit the Chicago Police Department someday. I felt she was telling me to leave this career option in order to save my life. Now, I never told many people of this story. However, I saw a TV show ("Unsolved Mysteries") in which a Lady in Black saved a motorcyclist on a highway near this area in Chicago and how paramedics and others saw this Lady in Black come to his aid and saved his life recognize. I am now certain that it was the same Lady in Black I encountered outside that Maxwell Street restaurant."
Waiting for adoption by Nervous Nick for the balance of the text.
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