My North Side apartment is the large, inexpensive top floor of a grey stone building on Halsted. The next morning, I woke up around six to another cold, cloudy day. I put on my running shoes and did eight kilometres around belmont harbour and back . I had breakfast, picked up the Lynx front of my building, and drove to the port of Chicago, which covers ten kilometres of the shore of the Calumet River. I got lost trying to find my way past some steel factories and a ford warehouse, and it was nine-thirty before i found Eudora Grain's regional office.