Percentage of people boarding Orange Line trains daily who used to drive instead, according to a survey by the CTA’s market research department: more than 25 percent.
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“Chicago has become a potent force in American culture,” Sarah Solotaroff of the Chicago Community Trust tells Ronald Litke in Trust News (Winter/Spring). “Artists of all kinds come here–and stay here–to hone their work. We used to lose so many people to the coasts. We still lose a few, but they are often replenished quickly. …It’s very much like the 1890s: an influx of new peoples, new art forms, new thinking, new theories on how culture relates to society at large.” And the last we noticed, the 1990s are threatening to be like the 1890s in a few other ways too.
With 349 black graduates in the 1991-’92 school year, Southern Illinois University, according to a recent university press release, ranks eighth among traditionally white schools in the United States for awarding bachelor’s degrees to African-Americans (first is CUNY-City College). Other Illinois schools in the top 50 are the U. of I. at Urbana (with 305 black graduates), National-Louis (with 254 black graduates), Roosevelt (with 202 black graduates), and UIC (with 199 black graduates).
U. of C. historian Robert Richards tells the university’s Chronicle (June 8) about his one-semester sojourn as a visiting professor at Harvard, where he lived and ate with students: “I don’t think an intellectual topic came up for discussion at mealtime more than once during the whole time I was there. But here at Chicago you have Aristotle with your corn flakes.”
