Uh, well–maybe you’ll go blind. Dr. Walter Barr of Loyola University Medical Center: “If you compare X-rays of patients who are habitual knuckle crackers to those who have never developed the habit, you will not find any…evidence of disease or joint abnormalities. The idea that knuckle cracking causes arthritis or big knuckles could be termed an old wives’ tale.”
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Still doing good and doing well after all these years. Two-thirds of Shorebank’s $40 million in new development loans and investments last year financed rehabilitation or home ownership Of 1,679 housing units, according to its 1992 annual report. Risky business for the socially concerned? No: “Average five-year Bank net loan losses are 0.35%, lower than our FDIC national peer group.”
“The lawyer was very argumentative in a vicious, mean and unreasonable way,” writes a Skokie court watcher (Citizens Look at Their Courts 1992). “He objected to everything with a snarl. Many objections were groundless and probably made to break the train of thought of the prosecuting attorney. In his closing argument, he told the jury that he apologized for being mean and sarcastic, but ‘I’m not being paid to be your friend. It’s my job to be a son of a bitch and since I am one I’m very well suited to my job.’”
Lest we forget. CTA director of market analysis and research Sarah LaBelle offers this statistical perspective on Chicago-area transit. Busiest CTA train line (O’Hare-Congress-Douglas): 145,500 average boardings per weekday. Busiest Metra line (Burlington Northern): 45,300. (CTA’s endangered Lake Street el: 37,200.) Busiest CTA bus line (number 9 Ashland): 35,560. Busiest Pace bus line (number 352 Halsted): 5,890.
