Wait a damn minute....did somebody say urban legends, #ghoststories and #ResurrectionMary? Do the Millennials know about Chicago's world-famous hitchhiking ghost?
Gather round. Below is a 1974 Trib piece by Pulitzer winner Peter Gorner. Hope it's readable.

My fellow Chicagoans, let's face it: our old town is both cursed and haunted. Dwellers of old apt buildings know. Some intersections hold the memory of hundreds of deaths. Some blocks are magnets for murder. Even kids in "good neighborhoods" see a dead body once in a while.

Back to Mary. Her story's been told a million times. A beautiful stark-white girl appearing on Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery. She gets picked up and sits quietly, but vanishes at some point during the trip. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/resurrection-mary-ghost-story/Content?oid=51326055

Resurrection Mary is Mary Bregovy, a real young woman who indeed died in a car accident in 1934 at age 21, but nowhere near Archer Avenue. Most versions of the story have strangers going to the Bregovy home saying they have their daughter in their car.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19720716/mary-bregovy

I wanna quickly switch gears to #urbanlegends, which I will define as a somewhat plausible tale with a gruesome ending meant to warn people or keep them on their guard. Think "Candy Man." But get a load of these Chicago urban legends...

If you hate clowns, a gift: Exactly 29 years ago, grade schools across the area were roiling with rumors of a man dressed as Damon Wayans' "Homey the Clown," attempting to kidnap children. I know this because it was the talk of the Cook School playground in Auburn Gresham.

Gang initiations! A common myth, not unique to Chicago, warns people from blinking their headlights because of a gang initiation where members will follow the Samaritan home and kill them. I asked a couple of cops I know whether something like this was ever real? They said...

...there is truth in that some gangs have been known to send new young members to fire on rivals as a rite of passage. Neither cop knew of anything so elaborate as following someone blinking their lights at you. But, as always, keep your head on swivel standing near gangsters.

And finally, thanks to @RobElgasABC7, let's not forget HH Holmes and his "Murder Castle" at 63rd and Wallace Avenue in Englewood. The personable conman and killer dispatched an untold number victims in his elaborately designed torture mansion ahead of the 20th Century.

The murder castle deserves a little more detail. Imagine a large three story with stores on the front and numerous rooms on top. But not just any rooms: Some were soundproof; some had gas vents to silently slay guests. Some had chutes to the basement for easy disposal.

As noted up above, urban legends are meant to keep us vigilant and watchful for tricks, appropriate as we approach Devil's Night and beyond. I grew up during the start of "Stranger Danger" when an entire generation was bluntly told adults would kidnap rape and murder them. #truth

This is all important because our area has a long history of missing and murdered children, like the Grimes Sister, Peterson–Schuessler murders, Jeanine Nicarico, the Bradley sisters, to name a few.