The photo below was taken in 1948 in Chicago, United States. It shows four siblings and their mother at the entrance to their house.
The photo below was taken in 1948 in Chicago, United States. It shows four siblings and their mother at the entrance to their house. In front of them is a gigantic sign saying: "4 children for sale inquire within." As it happens, the photo was real and the children were indeed on sale. Their parents, Ray (forty) and Lucille (twenty-four) Chalifoux were both unemployed and poverty-stricken. They were facing eviction from their apartment for not paying the rent. Their price tag will blow your mind, and what happened afterwards was outrageous and unreal. It's possible that the sign "4 children for sale" was just a cry for help. Once the newspapers around the country published the story, help actually came in the form of job offers, apartments, and money. Nobody really knows what happened in the following two years. However, in 1950, father Ray left, and the family fell apart. Mother Lucille began dating a man who didn't want an...