Friday 15
Still have a dried-out fire hazard around the house? You can recycle your Christmas tree for free from 9 to 2 today at the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 2001 N. Clark. Last year the museum chipped nearly 10,000 trees into mulch and it’s hoping for an even better turnout this year. They’d like the trees–sans ornaments and lights, please–brought around to the academy’s back entrance, on Stockton Drive in Lincoln Park. You can watch your tree get chipped and even take home a free bag of mulch for the yard. Call 744-5000 for information or other tree-recycling locations.
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Monday 18
If you’ve been bugged by direct-mail solicitations, check out today’s Symposium on Consumer Privacy, a forum from 8:30 to 12:15 sponsored by the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing. Academics, direct-mail marketers, and consumer reps, including the Privacy Journal’s editor, Robert Ellis Smith, will debate the issue and take questions from the audience. The forum is free, at the Chicago Hilton & Towers, 720 S. Michigan, but you must call 922-0439 to make reservations beforehand.
