Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 3rd, 2003
Byline: Laura Stewart Daily Herald Staff Writer
The two cars - one, a smooth-as-cream pink, the other, a foreboding charcoal black - have histories that are worlds apart.
One, originally owned by a mobster, the other by a starlet - they now rest yards apart.
The pink car, a 1951 Nash Airflyte Convertible, first purchased by Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe, was driven by the up-and-coming actress in the early 1950s.
The black car, a 1938 Cadillac limousine, with its now-smoky, age-cracked windows and tattered upholstery, was once the property of one of Chicago's most famed mobsters, Frank...
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