“Did you know that a long, long time ago, long before there was even pizza in Chicago, we were known for something else—dragons?”

The students laugh, knowing it’s not true, but they lean forward to hear more.

“See, here in Chicago we had the most beautiful dragons that anyone had ever seen. Dragons that had colors that people couldn’t even imagine. If you were stealthy enough and watched over by the lake, you could have seen dragons of the deepest blues, whose scales changed colors with the seasons. Over in Grant Park, you might spot dragons with scales in jewel-toned greens hiding in the trees, and white winter dragons that shimmered in the coldest weather. But then everything changed.”

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