November 2021: Best of Chicago lit Mario Smith

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He lost his right leg in a 1946 accident with the Marines but made the best of a lousy situation

’s funeral procession on his wooden leg

"Since I couldn’t go home

November 2021: Best of Chicago lit Mario SmithBest of Chicago How do we celebrate a city in the second year of a still raging pandemic? This was the challenge we contemplated when planning our twenty ninth Best of Chicago edition. In normal times, we've offered hundreds of recommendations of places to eat, to shop, to experience. But these are not normal times. Our experience of life over the past year, if we've managed to survive, has been collectively so similarwe've stayed home, we've worn