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Praying to the Virgin Mary Under I-94 in Chicago, Illinois
On April 10, 2005, a woman driving under this viaduct on Fullerton Avenue spotted a cloudy, yellowish apparition of the Virgin Mary on a cement wall. Shortly after, TV crews and hundreds of believers and non-believers arrived. Some proclaimed it a miracle, others pegged it as a salt stain or a watermark, and a few even found significance in its juxtaposition with some “Go Bears” graffiti. It was later defaced with shoe polish and painted over, but the cloaked visage reappeared. Today rosaries, dollar-store flowers, and ever-burning candles continue to brighten the shrine of Our Lady of the Underpass.
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