Hey, you wanna be sick or you wanna new car? The 1992 cost of an average Chicago hospital stay, according to the Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council: $11,601, up 9.8 percent over 1991.
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The subsidized suburbs, Chapter LXVIII. Percentage of northeastern Illinois transit riders in the suburbs: 15. Percentage of public operating assistance given to suburban transit providers: 43. (From a presentation given by Robert Cervero at a UIC transportation-research conference on June 11.)
World’s most vicious lake, according to John R. Reed in Singing Sands Almanac (Summer): Lake Michigan, with more than 3,000 known shipwrecks, “one shipwreck for every seven square miles of water surface.”
Is AIDS a punishment from God? Father James Bresnahan of Northwestern University Medical School: “It would be better to say that God has given us AIDS to bring us all to our senses–that death is not optional, that none of us is going to get out of this alive, and that we should respond compassionately to people who are suffering” (PAACNotes, April).
