Midnight in Chicago is a haunting, lyrical journey through the shadowed streets of a city that never sleeps. Samuel Ludke captures the pulse of Chicago at its most vulnerable hour—when neon lights flicker against wet pavement, jazz spills from hidden doorways, and quiet desperation drifts between skyscrapers like winter fog.

In these pages, love is found under streetlamps and lost in alleyways. Strangers' lives brush together like passing trains, and every story carries the weight of what might have been. With a voice both tender and unflinching, Ludke weaves poems that blur the line between longing and loss, memory and dream.