Vincent Falk recovering from eye surgery

16-Sep-08 – Marina City resident Vincent Falk – a/k/a Suit Man a/k/a Riverace – says he “can see a little better” after his third cornea transplant two weeks ago.

Falk was at University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. He is blind in one eye and has glaucoma in the other, a condition he was born with.

Believed to be the only Marina City resident who dances on Chicago River bridges for the amusement of tour boats, Falk has been the subject of newspaper articles by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, an NBC5 television news story, and a documentary that is currently being produced by filmmaker Jennifer Burns.

(Left) Falk next to a large globe on display in 2007 near Field Museum of Natural History.

Falk says his will be back at work next week and back on the bridges in a couple of weeks. He has worked as a computer programmer for Cook County for almost 22 years. He is thinking about taking early retirement.

He says his supervisor hopes he was given “a human eye and not a cow eye.”

A resident of the west residential tower since 1998, Falk’s first visit to Marina City was a dental appointment in the late 1990s with Dr. Gary Kimmel.