“Although Chicago forms the hub of U.S. candy manufacturing–
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Forty-three percent of Chicagoans oppose additional legalized gambling for Chicago, according to a survey UIC political scientists Barry Rundquist and Gerald Strom conducted for the Religious Task Force to Oppose Increased Legalized Gambling, compared to 32 percent who favor it. And 44 percent say the costs of legalized gambling exceed the benefits to Illinois. On the other hand, most agree that legalized gambling helps Illinois compete for tourist dollars and should be viewed as entertainment.
Note to the University of Chicago, Northwestern, etc: You are doomed. “This model–centrally stored information, scholars coming to the information, and a wide range of information subjects housed under one institutional roof–was logical when information was scarce, reproduction of documents expensive and restricted, and specialization low,” conditions roughly the same in those in 600 BC Nineveh and 1925 Chicago, writes Eli Noam in Science (October 13). But “today’s production and distribution of information are undermining the traditional flow of information and with it the university structure, making it ready to collapse in slow motion….Many of the traditional functions of universities will be superseded, their financial base eroded, their technology replaced, and their role in intellectual inquiry reduced.”
Home sweet unaffordable home. From a draft of the Metropolitan Planning Council’s report “Housing for a Competitive Region” (October): “A family headed by a single mother in Chicago, earning 50 percent of the median income in Chicago, would be able to afford a home, condominium or townhouse for not more than $40,000. The single mother would find 4,479 single-family three-bedroom houses on the market in Chicago in 1993. However, of this total, only 78 of the homes would be affordable. If this single mother looked at two-bedroom houses, she could afford 483 of the 6,369 houses on the market in 1993. Of all the available two- and three-bedroom units in Chicago, she could afford only about five percent.”
