I saw the following article this morning. Given the frequent Chicago connections in TLW and the combination of potential shady characters and a famous hangout, Green Mill, it occurred to me that it might be a place some of our heroes had frequented.
Here's the entire article and their are videos as well:
www.chicagotribune.com
While the tunnels famous link is from prohibition, the tavern was there in 1910 and the tunnels were used for coal then. (Uptown is the northside of Chicago.
Here's an excerpt from the story:
Quote:
In the floor behind the bar at the Green Mill, a century-old jazz club in Uptown, lies a door. Beneath it: a musty labyrinth of gangster and Uptown history.......
In the mid-1910s, the Green Mill was an exclusive hangout for Essanay Studio executives and early film stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Wallace Beery. ........
These musty concrete hallways and storage rooms are remnants of a tunnel system used to haul coal in the first part of the 20th Century. The Green Mill end of the tunnel provides the nightclub with its storeroom and cellar. Boxes of beer bottles and mini-pretzels wait to be summoned. Electrical wires and various pipes slink around the ceiling. Side rooms - cubbyholes said to be the sites of gangster poker games - hold dust-caked bar stools, stacked seat-to-seat, legs reaching for the sky.
Just a bit background in case anyone wants to ground a story in those pre-Plateau years.
rann
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I much prefer the idea of the explorers returning within their own time, more or less. Arriving the day after they left would be an amusing conundrum - no one would ever believe they'd gone at all! Of course, that would introduce a massive time paradox in and of itself...hm... 
