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CHICAGO -- Sister Paul Wilson has seen a lot of human suffering in her nearly six decades as a nun. So when she met Joseph Kromelis, who suffered horrific burns after being set on fire as he slept on a Chicago street, she didn’t flinch. She reached for his hand and told him she had been praying for him. Wilson wanted, she said, to show him he was loved. When she asked if she could visit him ...

Family and friends have shed light on a famous Chicago resident known as the Walking Man, who loved to stroll the streets he lived on until his horrific murder last year.

Joseph Kromelis, Chicago’s Walking Man, was a familiar figure to thousands – and a mystery even to those who loved him. This is his story.