Chicagoan Peter Bella, who served as a Chicago Police Officer for 30 years, is now a photographer whose first public exhibition opens Friday. rickkogan has more.
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But that wasn’t paying the bills so in the mid-1970s, realizing that “I knew a lot of guys who were getting laid off from their jobs during the recession at the time, all except those who were police officers.”One of Peter Bella's photographs that will be part of his exhibition at the Dime Gallery.“There were, of course, reasons beyond just job security,” he told me.
He had his own kid, a daughter named Cordelia, now an adult working for a local Catholic school. He met his wife, Lou Hamilton, a longtime real estate broker with her own firm who now manages buildings and taught real estate at the bygone Earl of Old Town. Such observations as well as some short stories are in his 2016 book, “Chicago Stories: Policing, Pests, and Pestilence.” And he is still writing, offering all manner of opinions on all manner of topics on his
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