In Chicago’s biting wind, a little girl was thrown out of a store over a carton of milk for her siblings—just as a stranger stopped, and everything veered in a different direction.
The door buzzer chimed like bad comedy—and then the shouting started. In the raw October wind off Lake Michigan, a small girl in a too-thin hoodie stood blinking at the neon OPEN sign that had just gone dark. She couldn’t have been more than ten. Rain freckled her cheeks. Her sneakers were split at the … Read more