Make no small pans? Chicago Ald. JoAnn Thompson, who represents the city’s Englewood neighborhood, tells Sneed that she doesn’t want the movie version of best-selling novel “Devil in the White City” filmed in Chicago because it highlights a serial killer who murdered women in Englewood. Thompson should also consider the fact that the real star of the book is our greatest civic hero, Daniel Burnham, architect of our spectacular 1893 World’s Fair and the visionary plan that protected our magnificent lakefront park system in perpetuity. It’s worth putting up with the grisly side story to burnish Burnham’s rep in front of a big movie audience—not to mention all the dollars moviemakers leave behind.
