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The “real photos that look fake” post was supposed to be a sort of amusing throwaway point, but has stirred up a surprising amount of interest.

Michelle wrote to say that one of the example photos was of the very place she used to live in Madison! That is a bit horrifying, one must admit.

It reminds me of an even worse situation of the sort… In around 1996 the Chicago Reader had a cover story one week about an apartment building scandalously packed full with asbestos, and forced into major renovations by the city for that reason, if I’m remembering correctly. You can guess where this is going, maybe– it turned out to be my own apartment building of two years earlier, on Sawyer Avenue just south of Sunnyside (Albany Park, the heavily Korean neighborhood west of Ravenswood Manor).

If I die young of cancer, it will be tough to guess whether the cause was asbestos in Albany Park, or apple shisha in Cairo.