That other man from Illinois

[lsanderson]

Memorial Day
By MATT MENDELSOHN
Published: November 5, 2008

I used to be a photojournalist. And so Tuesday night, as some 200,000 Chicagoans gathered around a brightly lighted stage under the gaze of the world’s news media, I headed to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, expecting to find a crowd and some news. More