Heidi Stevens: Neighbors stand outside dying man's condo to pay tribute in his final days
CHICAGO - At noon on Saturday, under gray skies threatening rain and the pall of a global pandemic upending life in a million ways, Bill Hession's friends and neighbors stood outside his Chicago condo and sent up their love.
Hession, 83, was inside his sixth-floor unit, where he lay dying. His daughter, Katie, and his wife, Joan, stood on the balcony, waving at the 60 or so people standing below on Calumet Avenue, just north of 21st Street.
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