Holly, I have never heard that! Did he see those vermin in Chicago?
That does raise the possibility that he saw or heard something dangerous
or that maybe he slipped up and told them something that evil powers wanted suppressed.
I thought it was very odd that he went. But, his love of journalism and the truth was greater than his disdain for those two. If I recall, he was about to break a story before he died and I believe his visit was part of the story. Or was he lured there under false pretenses?