Excuse me, I have a library appointment about some diagnostic tests. Suburban author (Sweet Reprieve) Ginny Maier: “I believe you could literally put yourself through medical school, with the exception of practicing surgery, by studying medicine at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library.”
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Promises, promises. In December 1993 Mayor Daley said the Chicago Department of Housing would create 4,888 new affordable housing units during 1994. The DOH now says it created 4,276–but Michael Leachman’s analysis of city data, published in the Chicago Rehab Network newsletter Network Builder (Winter 1995), claims the actual figure is 3,209. Among Leachman’s findings: “All 276 units [at 6 N. Hamlin] received funding through the department’s Multi-Family Rehab program. So, DOH counted 276 units created. In addition, the project received Tax Credits through the department. DOH took credit for creating 276 more units. Finally, 70 of the units in this project were subsidized by DOH through their Low-Income Housing Trust Fund. DOH counted 70 more units. In total, DOH claimed to have created 622 units,” instead of the actual 276.
“I don’t think there’s any place for a novelist in a university community,” writes Morris Philipson in An Unsentimental Education: Writers and Chicago. “If he has no success, and he has no otherwise-justified status in the faculty, then he is considered an embarrassment. If he is successful in any way, then he is considered a danger.” How so? “Before [Sinclair Lewis] became alcoholic and completely lost, when he was still doing serious writing, he was invited somewhere to be a writer-in-residence for a year–maybe at the University of Iowa. He found himself isolated. He was cold-shouldered. No one would talk with him–no one would risk becoming known by him — because they didn’t want to end up caricatured as one of his characters in a novel.”
No: “We demand: a massive and enlightened redistribution of the world’s wealth and land; a drastic reduction in the developed world’s rate of consumption; democratic cooperation to deal with those elements of environmental stewardship that require it; and reducing to local stewardship, local economics and local democracy those that don’t. Needless to say, you won’t find a corporate executive outside the Body Shop, Ben and Jerry’s, Tom’s of Maine or the like who even knows what I am talking about here.” –Andre Carothers
