Up this street, across, diagonal and back and down. There didn’t seem ... made perfect sense,” Jones said. “The Walking Man” in downtown Chicago in 2005. Kromelis’ appeal also lay ...

Joseph Kromelis, known as the Walking Man, was a popular subject for street photographers in Chicago. He was photographed on the DuSable Bridge on Michigan Avenue in 1994 by Randy Martens.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Joseph Kromelis - the famed "Walking Man" of downtown Chicago has died nearly seven months after an attacker set him on fire, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said Sunday.

And walk. "Up this street, across, diagonal, and back and down." David Jones, who tried to make a documentary film about Walking Man, told the Chicago Sun-Times. "There didn't seem to be a lot of ...

You could get a glimpse of Walking Man almost any day in Chicago: a tall, lean man with long, bushy hair, sharp features, and a wide moustache, who wore a blazer to stride, more than stroll, along ...