In good company. Dawn Clark Netsch in Chicago Life (September-October) on the Northwestern law school 1952 class picture: “There are only two faces that stand out. Mine and Harold Washington. He was the only black and I was the only woman graduating that June.”
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Getting acquainted. Cook County Commissioner Danny Davis on the Nature Conservancy’s Mighty Acorns program, which brings urban third- through seventh-graders to the Cook County forest preserves: “We need this program to introduce our children to the rest of the universe” (Natural Area Notes, Fall).
“What moved [during the World Cup series] were items related to Americana,” says Greater North Michigan Avenue Association head Russell Salzman in Illinois Issues (September). “Nike shoes, blue jeans, T-shirts. The out-of-town guests were on a tourist vacation rather than a Chicago shopping spree. We were pleased with the crowds, but you weren’t talking about the kind of shopping traffic you get during the radiologists’ convention.”
