Nobody remembers why the Heart O’Chicago Motel was built on Ridge instead of Lincoln like the rest of the north side’s vintage 50s motels. But general manager Scott DeGraf is happy it worked out that way. “We’re not on the strip,” he says. “We don’t want to be on the strip. There are too many drugs and prostitutes and all that.”
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