Note to my Chicago friends…especially to my BIG Chicago friends: The above is just an old joke. QUESTION: Can an image on a Chicago underpass be the Virgin Mary’s?ĪNSWER: No. I think there was was one of those on the onion bagel I ate. Well, it’s better than the Virgin Mary’s image on a grilled cheese sandwich. Hundreds flock to underpass where some see Virgin Mary in salt stain A yellow and white stain on a Chicago underpass is drawing a steady stream of people, some of whom claim what they see is a. (The meaning) depends on the individual who sees it. “Sometimes people ask us to look into it. “These things don’t happen every day,” Dwyer said. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago had not received any requests to authenticate the image as of Monday, spokesman Jim Dwyer said. “We’re treating this just like we treat any type of roadside memorial,” said IDOT spokesman Mike Claffey. The agency does not plan to scrub it off the wall. The stain is likely the result of salt run-off, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation. A police officer kept the crowd of about three dozen from getting too close to the traffic but didn’t stop them gathering around the stain. Tuesday morning, women knelt with rosary beads behind a police barricade while men in work shirts stood solemnly before the image, praying. Beside the image is an artist’s rendering of the Virgin Mary embracing Pope John Paul II in a pose some see echoed in the stain. Police have patrolled the emergency turnoff area under the Kennedy Expressway since Monday as hundreds of people have walked down to see the image and the growing memorial of flowers and candles that surround it. “We have faith, and we can see her face.” “We believe it’s a miracle,” said Elbia Tello, 42, of Chicago. In Chicago, people are flocking to an underpass where they insist a miracle is taking place:Ī steady stream of the faithful and the curious, many carrying flowers and candles, have flocked to an expressway underpass for a view of a yellow and white stain on a concrete wall that some believe is an image of the Virgin Mary. ![]() Kazemi is familiar with Saracho's work she directed a staged reading of Saracho's play "Enfrascada" while at DePaul and had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with the playwright.In Rome, people flocked to a square to see a new Pope. She is a graduate of DePaul University's MFA directing program and has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Victory Gardens, Silk Road Rising, Next Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists. ![]() She is the founding artistic director of The Blind Owl, a collective of dedicated performers, artists, and activists. The play is directed by Azar Kazemi, a visiting director and theater adjunct faculty member. Shriver, a married woman who desperately wants to be a mother. The audience meets an assortment of visitors to the makeshift shrine, including Tony, a self-appointed guardian of the shrine who travels to the underpass daily from his home in Elgin Ofelia, a woman from Mexico who cares for her nephew with cerebral palsy Matt, a cynical jogger who runs past the underpass regularly Magdalena, a Polish-American nurse who brings her mother to worship at the shrine Terri, a young woman who arrives at the shrine to seek solace from relationship issues with her fiancé and Mrs. The play begins at the five-year anniversary of the sighting and is told in a series of monologues. ![]() Performances are set for Friday, April 19, to Sunday, May 5, in ECC Arts Center's SecondSpace Theatre.
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