“Happily untainted by the reactionary crowd-control school of urbanism promoted by that pompous con-man, Daniel Burnham, Maxwell Street is virtually the opposite of a ‘mall.’” rejoices the Evanston-based Surrealist Group. “Maxwell Street is more marvelous than the ‘Magnificent Mile’; more educational than the Museum of Science and Industry; more fun than any of the official multi-million-dollar extravaganzas at Grant Park or Soldier Field. The destruction of such a haven, for any reason, would be a tragedy. But to destroy it in order to expand what is probably the ugliest college campus in the country would be a travesty. For our part, we would infinitely prefer to see the entire Circle Campus razed and its grounds used for the expansion of Maxwell Street.”
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“With the city of Chicago…I don’t perceive my company as a…partner,” says Bruce Crane of Crane Carton Company in the Greater North-Pulaski Business Times (September). “Perhaps I can best sum up the relationship as that between a patient and a dentist. A necessary evil where one is tempted to reach out, grab the dentist by the throat and gently say, ‘We’re not going to hurt each other, are we?’”
If college were a factory and students were widgets…The Springfield-based Illinois Community College Board proudly reports “increased productivity” because its student-faculty ratio has risen from 19.6 to 1 in 1988 to 20.5 to 1 in 1992.
