Chapter 19
The Northwest Institute of Parapsychology had occupied its place on Sherman Avenue in Evanston for more than two decades. The two large gray stone buildings that comprised the institute bore more than a passing resemblance to its closest neighbor, Northwestern University. Indeed, most people in the Chicago area assumed the institute was either part of the university or was attempting to cash in on its reputation and prestige. Even the researchers and faculty at the institute would begrudgingly admit they didn’t mind it if people thought Northwestern University and the institute were one and the same. The founders of the institute knew their small school, with its devotion to the study of a relatively new and controversial science, might fare a little better if they were associa
