These are Christmas stories connected to Chicago.
Robert L. May wanted to be a novelist but worked as a catalog writer at Montgomery Ward in Chicago. Staring out his office window at downtown Chicago on a foggy day, May experienced his own lightbulb moment.
"Suddenly I had it! A nose! A bright red nose that would shine through the fog like a spotlight."
May considered naming the tiny reindeer with the red nose "Rollo" or "Reginald" but eventually settled on "Rudolph."
The Chicago-based department store printed more than two million copies of May's book "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in 1939.
The ninth and youngest of Santa's reindeer flew straight into the hearts of children across America using his luminous red nose to light the way.
--CootDeer
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