She's known simply as "Mary." She's been living on the streets of Chicago for at least 30 years.I first got to "know" Mary in 1979. She was a fixture in the Rush Street bar district in Chicago. She was known for flashing her breasts for a buck. Over the past 29 years, I've seen Mary repeatedly in various parts of Chicago. While living in Los Angeles, I'd run into ex-Chicagoans who knew Mary. They gave her a buck. She showed them her breasts.
These photos were taken two days ago on State Street, in the Loop of downtown Chicago. The amazing thing is that Mary, living on the street for three decades or more, has not visibly aged much. She's always looked like hell, and she's not quite right in the head. I don't say that to be cruel; it's just sad truth.It's a shame that the Democrats and ACLU got the Government to kick people like Mary out of institutions and onto the streets decades ago while Lyndon Johnson was the president. They said that it was a violation of the civil rights of people like Mary, who obviously cannot hold a job, to force them into an institution where they would get three squares a day, medical care, and be away from rapists and thieves. No, better to let them be "free" to fend for themselves and eat out of dumpsters.
