While in Chicago for the family reunions and genealogical research, we stayed in a Days Inn in Lakeview, the old neighbourhood (where I lived for a time way back in … never mind). I wandered around and found a bunch of faces and gargoyles I never noticed when I lived there. But of course, I lived there before my gargoyle awakening.

They’re everywhere! I don’t know what these buildings were originally – I’d research them if I weren’t working on another book – but they were highly decorated.