Don’t let your laptop fall in there. According to a Chicago firm offering a document shredder, “Unlike desktop shredders, the Kwik Shred machines can destroy staples, paper clips, rubber bands–even computer disks and tapes, off-specification packaging materials and confidential product prototypes.”
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Aside from the occasional carnivorous shrub. How to control crime in parks? In a recent press release the International Society of Arboriculture, based in downstate Savoy, quotes one of seven suggestions from a recent study: “Remember, the wholesale removal of vegetation is unnecessary. Vegetation is rarely the sole cause of crime.”
“Many denominational boards and congregations have followed a ‘don’t ask-don’t tell’ posture towards, or overtly rejected, sexual minorities,” write the publishers of the Lambda Directory of Religion and Spirituality. “As a result, sexual minorities have formed a vast array of welcoming groups and organizations. Some groups formed new denominations, such as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Gay and lesbian groups are found in the shadows of almost every denomination and faith, from Baptist to Buddhist…. Dignity, the largest of such groups with over 5,000 members, provides services to Catholic gay men and lesbians. Integrity (Episcopal), Affirmation (United Methodist), More Light (Presbyterian), and Reconciled in Christ (Lutheran) sponsor hundreds of local chapters in the U.S.”
Could rent subsidies for CHA residents to enter the private housing market be unfair? Maybe so, according to a Metropolitan Planning Council policy brief: “Only 9 to 13 percent of Chicago’s very low-income households live in CHA….In a city where housing abandonment, demolition and condominium conversion continue to drive supply down, an influx of CHA residents will increase rents and decrease availability.”
