“They Threw Out a Farmer in Slippers — Five Minutes Later, One Phone Call Shut Down the Hotel”

sources. Sometimes wisdom wears worn slippers and carries dirt under its fingernails. And sometimes the people we’re quickest to dismiss are the very ones with the most to teach us.

The Grandeur Continental Hotel still stands in downtown Chicago, its lobby still gleaming with marble and crystal, still catering to the wealthy and powerful. But now, hanging continue reading …