Must be these new video games. Title of a student paper presented last fall at an Argonne National Laboratory symposium: “Irritation From Ingestion of the Urticating Hairs of Tarantulas.”
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This program made possible by the support of corporations like you. Allan Siegel in Video (January/February): “In Chicago, a city with plentiful resources– music, theater, literature–only a handful of WTTW’s programs reflect Chicago’s cultural abundance; and few programs draw on the capabilities of Chicago’s production community….The station has a notoriously abysmal relationship with independent producers, and the vision of station management is perpetually enveloped in an elitist cloud.”
The 63 suburbs from Chicago south to Kankakee, west to Joliet, and east to Indiana would be the 11th largest U.S. city–just behind Phoenix and ahead of Baltimore–if they were all one, according to Profiles II: Economic and Demographic Factbook of Chicago Southland, published by Star Newspapers.
Growth industry. Total number of conventions, trade shows, and corporate meetings held in Chicago, according to the city Convention and Tourism Bureau, January through September 1992: 21,776. Same period in 1993: 26,810 (Chicago Enterprise, January-February).
