The Chicago Cipher

Chicago · 12 October 2026

A poet from Galesburg sized up this city in 1914 and wrote down what he saw. On Friday Chicago lost Mike Ditka, and nobody ever fit the description better.

Every letter below is standing in for another one. Tap a box, then tap the letter you think belongs there, and every box with that same code letter fills in at once. Two letters are on the house.