Grandma Lena and Me
The 400 Theater, a legendary Chicago movie house, may be closing. The news brought back memories I wasn't expecting.
When I was in high school million years ago in the 1970s, I spent countless weekends staying with my Grandma Lena at her apartment on the corner of Morse Avenue and Sheridan Road, in Chicago’s East Rogers Park neighborhood.
Grandma Lena, my mom's mom, was born Zendahl Bornstein on August 3, 1907 in Częstochow…