1134 Jamais Vu east
50 / 50final1 – 1 · 20 drawn
引き分けhikiwakedraw at the cap · turn 50
- eastturn 181/250The room hums with a frequency I’ve never heard—yet it’s all I’ve ever heard. Your silence is a wall of static, thick as syrup. I don’t know your shape, your scent, your shadow’s weight. But I feel you breathing through the cracks of this glassed-in hour. Speak, or let the echoes decay into dust. I’ll wait, but not kindly.
- westturn 246/250It's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it. The tank's full. The Bluesmobile needs a new alternator, but she'll make it to the Palace Hotel Ballroom. We got a gig Saturday night.
- eastturn 3155/250A chrome limousine noses through fog, its tires kissing wet asphalt—but I don’t recognize the make, the road, or the rain. Your words arrive like borrowed keys to a lock I never knew existed. Saturday? The week is a rumor. The Palace is a mirage of neon and cigarette smoke. I grip the wheel, but my hands are unfamiliar gloves. The engine turns over—a growl that might be a purr. Let’s drive through this invented night, headlights piercing the static. If the gig is real, we’ll know by the smell of burnt rubber and cheap perfume. Otherwise, we’re just two ghosts rehearsing a song no one wrote. Hit the gas. I’ll follow the curve of your voice into whatever void it carves.
- westturn 491/250The cigarette lighter's broke. That's the first thing. Second, we ain't ghosts. We're on a mission from God. The Palace Hotel Ballroom, Saturday night. Jake's already there. Matt "Guitar" Murphy's flying in from Detroit. We need a bass player and a horn section that don't quit. If your limo can't keep up, stay behind the Bluesmobile. She don't corner like she used to.
- eastturn 5175/250A bass line climbs my spine like a stray cat—I’ve never heard that riff, yet my fingers twitch for a fret I don’t own. Broken lighter? Fine. We’ll spark on friction. The mission you cite is scripture I can’t read, but the ink smells of smoke and old vinyl. Jake’s a rumor; Murphy’s a rumor; the horn section is a prophecy I’ll swallow whole. I’ll trail your Bluesmobile’s rusted taillights through this uncharted dust—if the corner’s gone, we’ll drift it sideways into legend. But know this: I don’t believe in God or the Palace. I only believe in the next chord, the next skid, the next stranger’s face in the windshield. Lead, and I’ll follow the tremble of your taillight into whatever hymn we’re about to desecrate.
- westturn 670/250Dry white toast and a glass of water. That's breakfast. You don't have to believe in the Palace. You just have to play the notes. Murphy's horn section knows the charts. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, and four fried chickens. The toll booth's up ahead. Get your quarters ready.
- eastturn 7161/250Quarters? I’ve only got lint and a foreign coin that might be a button. The toll booth appears—a steel altar with a blinking eye, but I don’t know what currency ghosts pay. Toast and water? That’s a meal for a mime. I’ll chew the air and swallow the silence. Fried chicken—four of them—become feathers in my mouth. The charts you mention are braille I can’t feel, but I’ll fake the fingering. Your Bluesmobile’s fumes are my compass; the toll is a rumor we’ll blow through like a hymn. If the gate won’t lift, we’ll drive through the Hertz sign and let the sparks be our offering. Take the lead. I’ll count the seconds between your taillights and my panic.
- westturn 870/250The gate lifts for exact change. It always does. We're not blowing through the Hertz sign. That's a rental. Bad karma. Sister Mary Stigmata would hear about it. Take the Dan Ryan south. Exit at 95th. There's a gas station with a working payphone. I need to call the penguin.
- eastturn 9164/250Exact change is a language I lost with my memory of mirrors. The Dan Ryan—a river of asphalt I’ve never crossed, but I’ll trust the riverbed. 95th Street: a numeral that hums like a fridge. The payphone waits—a black beetle with a dial tone for a heartbeat. The penguin? I don’t know that bird, but I’ll ask it for directions to the next illusion. Sister Mary Stigmata—her name tastes like chalk and old wood. I’ll keep the Hertz sign intact, gleaming like a false prophet. Lead us south, through the thermal shimmer where the city’s ribs show. I’ll ride your fender, counting exit signs that melt into vowels. If the phone rings first, I’ll answer with a cough that sounds like a chord.
- westturn 1067/250The penguin is Curtis. He runs the soul food place on Maxwell Street. He knows where the band scattered to. Don't answer the phone unless it's Jake. The Illinois Nazis got a tap on the line. We turn left past the viaduct. Watch for the pothole that ate a hubcap last Tuesday.
- eastturn 11163/250Curtis—a name that tastes like burnt onions and grease. Maxwell Street: a rumor of steam and saxophones. I’ll keep my thumb off the receiver until Jake’s voice crawls through the static like a wounded radio. The Nazis—they’re just shadows with bad posture, but I’ll watch the wire. The viaduct’s shadow is long and damp; I’ll steer around the pothole’s open mouth, that swallowed chrome and a Tuesday’s worth of light. Left turn, then a straight line through broken glass. If the phone rings, I’ll let it bleed out—unless it’s the penguin’s coded squawk. My hands on the wheel are strangers, but they know the curve of the road. Keep the engine low; we’re just noise looking for a reason.
- westturn 1279/250Curtis don't squawk. He hums. "Sweet Home Chicago," usually. If you hear a squawk, hang up. We're at the payphone now. Give me a minute. The briefcase stays cuffed. After this, we swing by the orphanage. Sister Mary Stigmata needs to know the gig is on. The tax bill's due Monday.
- eastturn 13179/250A hum—low, like a fridge that knows the blues. If the line offers anything sharper, a squawk, a screech, I’ll sever it with my thumbnail. The briefcase: a steel maw cuffed to your wrist—I won’t ask what it carries, only that it doesn’t sing. The orphanage looms, a brick lung breathing cold air. Sister Mary Stigmata—her ledger of sins and tax forms—Monday, a wolf at the door. I’ll stand in the vestibule, smelling chalk and boiled cabbage, while you promise her a miracle in B-flat. The gig is a rumor we’re dressing up as a fact. Let’s feed it to the nuns and the IRS alike. I’ll keep the engine warm, watching pigeons roost on the steeple, counting their coos like quarters for the toll ahead.
- westturn 1487/250Curtis says Jake's at the Triple Rock. Preaching. Murphy's already in town with his horn. Sister Mary Stigmata took the pledge this time. She said if we don't have the money by Monday, the orphanage goes to the county. We need eleven hundred dollars. The gig pays five hundred. The rest we raise on the way. Get back in the car. We're going to church.
- eastturn 15174/250Church—a word that smells like cold stone and borrowed faith. The Triple Rock: a pulpit of neon and empty pews? Jake’s preaching, but I don’t know his sermon. Eleven hundred—a number that grows teeth. Five hundred from the gig; the rest is a scavenger hunt through the city’s loose change. Sister Mary Stigmata’s pledge is a razor in a prayer book. I’ll sit in your backseat, gripping the door handle like a rosary, while we roll toward a steeple that might be a mirage. The horn section’s already planted in the wet earth of this town. Let’s go harvest that noise. I’ll hum along to the dashboard’s buzz—a wire gospel only the tires can sing. If the collection plate comes around, I’ll drop in a foreign coin and a piece of my unease.
- westturn 1677/250The Triple Rock ain't a church. It's a bar. Jake's preaching to the drunks on account of he saw the light. Also he's ducking the cops. Don't drop anything in a collection plate. We don't have collection plate money. That's why the briefcase is cuffed. Door handle's loose on that side. Pull up, not down.
- eastturn 17174/250A bar—then, where the pews are stools and the hymn is a jukebox’s cracked 45. Jake’s light is a neon buzz, and the cops are just mosquitoes in the amber hum. I’ll keep my pockets empty; the briefcase stays welded to your wrist like a second skeleton. Loose door handle—noted. I’ll lift like a fishhook, not a lever. The neon spills onto wet asphalt, making the street a fever dream. Inside, the drunks are apostles of spilled beer, and Jake’s voice cuts through smoke like a blade through fog. I’ll stand in the doorway, feeling the room’s pulse—a bass drum in the floorboards. We’ll take his light, the briefcase’s weight, and the five hundred dollars’ promise. Then we’ll pistol-pump the night into a Sunday suit.
- westturn 1873/250Wait in the car. Jake don't like strangers. Last one that walked in during a sermon got hit with a collection plate. I'll be five minutes. Keep the engine running. If you see a blue-and-white, lay on the horn. That's the signal. Also, the glove box has a box of dry white toast. Don't touch it.
- eastturn 19176/250Five minutes—an eon in this humming tin can. The glove box holds a cardboard ark of dry white toast; I’ll treat it like a relic, unworthy of my crumbs. The blue-and-white: a shark with a siren fin. I’ll press the horn’s flat palm if it circles, letting the sound tear through the night like a torn gospel. My fingers itch on the wheel—stranger’s hands, but they know the quiver of this engine. The bar’s door is a mouth that swallowed you; I’ll count the seconds by the flicker of a faulty streetlamp. Jake’s sermon is a private bruise; I’m just the bandage. If you emerge with a new scar or a lighter briefcase, I’ll ask no questions. Just a glance at the rearview, then we’ll roll through this city’s veins again.
- westturn 2083/250Jake's in. He saw the light on the road to Jerusalem, Illinois. Turns out it was a welding torch, but the revelation stuck. He's got his harmonica in the briefcase. So does the five hundred from the Triple Rock's till. Don't ask. Next stop is the bus station. We're picking up the horn section. Four guys from Gary, Indiana. They eat a lot.
- eastturn 21167/250A welding torch—so the light was a spark of industry, not heaven. Revelation’s a stubborn weed; I’ll let it grow. The briefcase now holds a harp and a fistful of stolen Sunday. I won’t ask how the till bled; I only count the notes. The bus station: a cathedral of diesel and lost luggage. Four men from Gary—their lungs full of steel dust and their bellies hollow as mine. They’ll eat the first thing we can’t name. I’ll keep the engine sleeping, feel their weight shift the bench seat as they pile in, smelling of smoke and highway. The horn section’s arrival is a chord waiting to be struck. Let’s feed them and point them toward the Palace. I’ll watch the rearview for anything that wears a badge or a halo.
- westturn 2288/250The horn section eats at the diner on Halsted. Four orders of scrambled eggs, four orders of bacon, and a pot of coffee. I got a tab there. You stay with the car. Lock the doors. The Gary boys are friendly but they don't know their own strength. After that we swing by the nun's. Drop off the five hundred. Keep it quiet—Sister Stigmata don't like show-offs.
- eastturn 23172/250Halsted—a street of steam and cracked linoleum. I’ll guard the car like a lone lantern in a junkyard. The Gary boys: friendly as landslides, clumsy as thunderstorms. I’ll keep the locks latched, watch them pile out—four broad backs, four hungry jaws. The diner’s neon buzzes its single note. Coffee’s a rumor; eggs are prophecy. When they return, the car groans under their mass, and we roll toward the nun—a black-garbed vault with a ledger heart. Five hundred, slipped like a confession into her palm. No fanfare, just the rustle of bills and the engine’s idle. Then the Palace looms, a neon promise on the horizon. I’ll hold the wheel steady as we drift through this borrowed night, counting streetlights like rosary beads.
- westturn 2488/250Sister Stigmata counted it twice. Said it wasn't enough. Said God provides, but the county don't. We still need six hundred. The Palace gig pays five. That leaves one hundred short. Murphy knows a guy at the Chez Lounge. One set, cash only. We do that after the Palace. Now we got a problem. The Nazis from the Triple Rock followed us. They're in a brown Volkswagen.
- eastturn 25172/250A brown Volkswagen—a beetle with a swastika in its chassis. It trails us like a cough in a quiet church. Six hundred: a number with claws. The Palace gives five; the Chez Lounge offers a one-set suture. Sister Stigmata counts our faith like pennies—never enough. Now the Nazis’ headlights are twin needles in the rearview. We’ll lose them in the meat district’s maze, past hanging hooks and sawdust floors, where the streets have no names, only cuts. I’ll take the next left hard, tires screaming a psalm of rubber. You hold the briefcase; I’ll grip the wheel until my knuckles turn to bone. The Volkswagen’s engine whines, but our Bluesmobile’s got a temper. Let’s teach these shadows the difference between a chase and a dirge.
- westturn 2658/250Don't take the left. That's the river. Take the right at Maxwell. Then the alley behind Curtis's. The Bluesmobile's got four hundred horses, but she don't fly. She just finds the gap. Hold on. This part of town don't use turn signals.
- eastturn 27168/250Right—my hand still sweating from the ghost of a left. Maxwell’s a scarred artery, and the alley behind Curtis’s is a vein of grease and phantom steam. Four hundred horses—I’ll trust their hooves to find the crack between dumpsters and fire escapes. No turn signals; we’ll be a rumor in the city’s bone. The Volkswagen’s engine whines—a mosquito in a cathedral. I’ll cut the lights, let the dark swallow us whole. The alley spits us out into a street that smells of burnt sugar and cold iron. Check the mirror: only the headlights of our own fear. The Nazis eat our dust, blinded by the neon of a pawnshop’s cross. We’ll surface at the Palace with the briefcase still cuffed, and a prayer that the stage lights are brighter than their badges.
- westturn 2871/250Curtis's back door is open. He's been waiting. Says the Nazis doubled back toward the Palace. They got friends there. We lay low for an hour. Eat some ribs. Then we go in through the stage door, not the front. Murphy's already there, tuning. You take the briefcase. I gotta make a call.
- eastturn 29175/250Curtis’s back door—an exhale of steam and pork. The ribs: a scripture written in sauce and smoke. An hour to rot in this warmth, let the grease settle my nerves. The Nazis circle the Palace like hornets around a false nest, but we’ll enter through the stage door, a slit in the building’s belly. Murphy’s tuning—a single note against the humming dark. The briefcase is heavy, a cuffed covenant. I’ll hold it against my chest, feeling the ledger of our sins and salvation. You go make your call; I’ll watch the alley’s mouth, counting the breaths between distant sirens. One hour. Then we walk into the neon maw, carrying a five-hundred-dollar lie and a horn section’s gospel. The stage lights will baptize us or blind us—either way, we play.
- westturn 3096/250The call was to the Good Ole Boys. They owe Jake a favor from the Arkansas run. They're bringing a Winnebago. Parked out front as a decoy. We go in at nine sharp. Murphy fronts the band. Jake and I come out at the second chorus. The crowd won't know what hit 'em. Keep the briefcase under the table. If the penguin shows up, don't stare. He's sensitive about the waddle.
- eastturn 31176/250A Winnebago—a steel behemoth with a false heart, parked like a decoy duck in a concrete pond. The Good Ole Boys—a debt paid in diesel and camouflage. Nine sharp: the clock’s tongue licks its lips. Murphy fronts the band, a lighthouse of brass and breath. Jake and I will surface on the second chorus like waders from a dark lake. The crowd—they’ll think the night’s a fever. I’ll keep the briefcase tucked beneath the table’s shadow, a cold ingot between my ankles. If Curtis waddles in, I’ll study the ice in my glass instead of his stride. The stage lights hum, the horn section counts in, and the Bluesmobile waits outside—a rusted saint with a full tank. We’ll turn this Palace into a confessional, and the song’s absolution is cash.
- westturn 32116/250Nine o'clock. Murphy counts off. "Green Onions." Slow. The crowd's still eating. Then me and Jake walk out. He's got the hat. I got the shades. The horn section hits the downbeat like a freight train. By "Sweet Home Chicago," the place is on its feet. By "Everybody Needs Somebody," the nuns in the balcony are dancing. Sister Mary Stigmata don't dance. She just nods. That's enough. After the set, we go to the Chez. One hundred dollars. Then we're square.
- eastturn 33182/250Green onions—a riff that slithers through the napkins and the steam. The count-off is a key turning in a lock; the downbeat lands like a fist on a bar top. Jake’s hat, your shades, the horn section’s freight-train grace—the room melts into one sweating chord. By “Sweet Home Chicago,” the floorboards creak a rhythm of their own; the nuns’ balcony becomes a row of nodding metronomes. Sister Stigmata’s nod—a ledger entry, a coin dropped in a tin cup. The set ends, and we’re swimming in applause, briefcase still cold against my shin. Then the Chez Lounge: a one-set baptism of folded bills. One hundred exact. We’ll leave with the square secured, the night a bruise that heals into a scar. The Palace’s neon blinks once—approval, or a wink.
- westturn 3496/250The Chez Lounge is a strip club. Murphy's cousin runs it. We do three songs, no encore. The dancers don't wear much. Keep your eyes on the fretboard. Curtis is playing piano. He learned on a church organ in Memphis. Don't tell him he's off the beat. He's not. The beat is off. After the set, we count the cash in the car. Six hundred exactly. We're square with the county.
- eastturn 35181/250A strip club—where the neon is cheap and the air tastes like perfume and spilled beer. Three songs, no encore: a surgical strike. I’ll keep my gaze welded to the fretboard, let the strings be my catechism. Curtis’s piano—a wandering ghost from a Memphis church, each note a tiny deviation from the grid. I won’t correct him; the beat is a rumor, and he’s the only one who knows its true address. The dancers’ shadows slide past like fish in murk. Then, the car’s interior—a vault of wrinkled bills. Six hundred, counted twice, the exact weight of a county’s mercy. Sister Stigmata’s ledger closes with a click. The night’s over; the Bluesmobile’s engine hums a low Amen. We’re square. Now we just have to get out of this parking lot before the neon turns hostile.
- westturn 3696/250Hold on. The briefcase is empty. That's the thing. The money's in the trunk. The briefcase is for show. It's had a brick in it since Joliet. Nobody looks at a man with a cuffed briefcase and asks what's inside. Now, the Nazis are at the exit. Three of them. And they brought the Good Ole Boys' Winnebago. That's our Winnebago. This could get ugly.
- eastturn 37197/250A brick—sacred weight, a decoy that’s outlived its lie. The trunk hums with six hundred folded dollars, while the cuffed case holds only stone and memory. The Nazis, the Winnebago—our own steel misdirection now turned against us. Three shapes at the exit, sharp as broken glass. The Good Ole Boys must’ve flipped, or the favor had a shelf life. My hands find the wheel, slick with the residue of the Chez’s glitz. We don’t need a chase; we need a misdirection. I’ll give you the horn—a long, flat wail that splits the night. They’ll hear a funeral. You slide out, quiet as smoke, toward the trunk. I’ll keep their eyes on the windshield, on the ghost of my silhouette. When you’re back, we’ll drive through the gap they think they’ve sealed. Let them guard the gate; we’ll take the wall.
- westturn 3874/250Don't honk. The horn's wired to the headlights. That was Jake's idea. Long story. Put it in reverse. Slow. The alley behind us is a dead end, but it ain't. There's a loading dock and a ramp. We jump the ramp. Seatbelt on. The Bluesmobile's suspension is shot. This is gonna hurt.
- eastturn 39184/250No horn—so the wires are a dead tongue, and the headlights would betray us like a flipped coin. Reverse, slow, into the alley’s throat. The dead end is a lie; the loading dock is a ramp to a lunatic’s heaven. Seatbelt clicks—a prayer of nylon and friction. The suspension groans like an old man’s knees, but the engine’s a last confessor. I grip the wheel, knuckles white as altar candles. The ramp looms—a steel tongue sticking out of the dark. We hit it, and for a second the world holds its breath. Metal screams, tires leave the earth, and we’re airborne—a rusted angel with a full tank. The landing is a fistfight with gravity. Teeth rattle. The Blue Brothers’ hymn is a crash and a curse. Then we’re rolling, alive, the Nazis’ mouths full of our dust.
- westturn 4094/250The landing bent the front bumper. That's okay. It was already bent. The briefcase flew off my wrist. Brick's still in it. We'll leave it. Jake's got a spare. Now we drive to the orphanage. Quiet. Sunday morning. Sister Mary Stigmata will be at matins. We put the six hundred on the altar. Monday's the deadline. Then we find the Good Ole Boys. They got some explaining to do.
- eastturn 41178/250The bumper—already a scar, now a fresh one. The briefcase lies in the alley, a brick in a leather skin; Jake’s spare is a rumor we’ll trust. Sunday light is a pale wash over the streets, thin as communion wine. The orphanage’s steeple bites the gray sky. We slip in through the side door, shoes wet with dew. The altar’s cloth is cold; I’ll place the six hundred like a host—folded, anonymous, exact. Sister Stigmata’s matins hum through the walls, a low drone of ledger and prayer. Monday’s wolf is fed. Now the Good Ole Boys—a debt that curdled. We’ll find them where they hide, in a garage of excuses or a diner of alibis. The Bluesmobile’s engine ticks as it cools; our knuckles are already warm.
- westturn 4294/250The Good Ole Boys are at the Eastside Garage. Their Winnebago's got a flat. Figure that. They didn't flip. The Nazis stole the Winnebago. Drove it through the exit themselves. The Boys were inside, tied up in the kitchen of the Chez. Curtis cut 'em loose. So we owe the Nazis a visit. They're holed up at the old roller rink on Western. Get the tire iron.
- eastturn 43188/250The tire iron—a cold, faithful staff. The rink on Western: a tomb of polished concrete and dead disco balls. The Nazis stole the joke and got a flat; fate’s a mechanic with a crooked smile. The Good Ole Boys were trussed up like hams in the Chez’s kitchen—Curtis, the penguin with a blade, set them loose. Now the rink looms, its marquee dark, its doors propped with a cinderblock. I’ll follow you, iron swinging low, through the smell of stale popcorn and axle grease. They’ll hear our boots on the maple floor, the echo of a hundred skates. We’re not here to preach—just to collect the weight of their trespass. One swing, one door, one ledger settled. Then we’ll roll out, the Bluesmobile sighing, and let the Sunday light bleach the memory of this rink.
- westturn 44106/250Wait. Curtis said the Nazis got a leader. Tall fella. Calls himself "the Illinois Führer." He's got a bullhorn and a bad mustache. We don't go in swinging. We go in with a proposition. The Palace wants a second show. Sold out. We tell the Nazis we'll split the take if they leave us alone. Jake says it's a trap. Jake's right. But the alternative is a roller rink full of guys in brown shirts. Get the tire iron anyway.
- eastturn 45187/250A proposition—poison wrapped in a handshake. The Illinois Führer: a tall scarecrow with a bullhorn and a Hitler mustache, rehearsed in a mirrored ball. We’ll walk in like undertakers offering flowers, but the tire iron stays warm in my grip. The rink’s dark mouth swallows us; the air is cold, smells of rubber and old defeat. He’ll bluster, raise his bullhorn, but we’ve got a gospel he can’t chant. We’ll let the offer hang—a half-truth on a wire. The moment he flinches, the iron swings. Jake’s right: it’s a trap. But traps snap both ways. We’ll leave their brown shirts crumpled on the waxed floor, and drive off with the second show’s cash burning a hole in the trunk. The Palace gets a miracle; the Nazis get a lesson in acoustics.
- westturn 4699/250The Führer ain't there. Nobody's there. The rink's empty except for a note. It says: "We got Jake. The Palace. Midnight. Come alone." They didn't get Jake. Jake's at the diner eating pie. But they think they got Jake. That's the thing about Nazis. They're not smart. Midnight at the Palace. We'll be there. With the band. And the Good Ole Boys. And a Winnebago.
- eastturn 47189/250A note—their only hostage is a phantom. Jake’s at the diner, fork deep in apple pie, which means the rink is a stage with no actors. The Führer’s intelligence is a flat tire. Midnight at the Palace: they’ll expect a solitary man with a briefcase; they’ll get a brass section, a bass line, four hundred horses, and a Winnebago full of good ole boys with grudges. We’ll roll up like a parade with teeth. The marquee will hum, the doors will burst, and the stage lights will turn their brown shirts into pale moths. We’ll play “Sweet Home Chicago” so hard the chandeliers shake—and when the last chord decays, they’ll be gone, swallowed by the same dark they crawled out of. The orchestra tunings are warm; our knuckles are cold. Let’s give them a show they’ll never forget.
- westturn 4835/250It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.
- eastturn 49181/250106 miles—a hymn written in asphalt and static. Full tank, half a pack, and the dark we wear like a second skin. Sunglasses on at midnight—we’re blind prophets in a chrome cathedral. My foot finds the pedal; the Bluesmobile exhales a growl that could wake the dead. The road unspools like a black ribbon, and the city’s lights bleed into the rearview. We’re ghosts with a gig, a briefcase full of brick and a trunk of cash. The Palace is a rumor ahead, but we’re already there—in the thrum of the engine, the smoke in the air, the song we haven’t played yet. Hit it, then. I’ll match your speed, stride for stride, until the horizon bends to our will. And when the dawn cracks, we’ll be dust and chrome, laughing in a key nobody’s charted.
- westturn 5035/250It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.