The almighty car. How did members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America first hear about their current congregations? According to a survey published in the Chicago-based Lutheran (July), the top three ways were “invitation from a friend” (22 percent), “family or personal past association” (24 percent), and “driving by” (29 percent).
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Best six aldermen 1991-93, according to an IVI-IPO survey of 20 key City Council votes (including the Edison franchise, blue-bag recycling, and library funding): Jesse Evans (21st Ward, 95 percent correct), Larry Bloom (5th, 85 percent), Joe Moore (49th, 80 percent), Toni Preckwinkle (4th, 75 percent), John Steele (6th, 75 percent), and Helen Shiller (46th, 75 percent). Worst six, all with just 5 percent correct votes: John Buchanan (10th), John Madrzyk (13th), James Laski (23rd), Terry Gabinski (32nd), Richard Mell (33rd), and Michael Wojcik (35th). Mayor Daley’s own Patrick Huels (11th) barely escaped the cellar by scoring 10 percent.
“The history of Indian-white relations has not usually produced complex stories. Indians are the rock, European peoples the sea, and history seems a constant storm,” writes historian Richard White in The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, quoted by James Stuart in Illinois Issues (July). “There have been but two outcomes: The sea wears down and dissolves the rock; or the sea erodes the rock but cannot finally absorb its battered remnant, which endures. The first outcome produces stories of conquest and assimilation; the second produces stories of cultural persistence…. But the tellers of such stories miss a larger process and a larger truth. The meeting of the sea and continent, like the meeting of white and Indian, creates as well as destroys. Contact was not a battle of primal forces in which only one could survive. Something new could appear.”
