Headlines we could have lived without, from Real Estate Guide (October 1987): “Glove Makers Take Future Into Their Own Hands.”
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“My boss asks me almost daily why I haven’t heard back” from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Pablo G. tells Jennifer Juarez Robles of the Chicago Reporter (December 1987). “He thinks I’ve been rejected and I’m holding back the answer. I’m afraid I’ll lose this job if the INS doesn’t tell me soon.” The Little Village resident is caught in the faltering program of amnesty for illegal aliens. Caseworkers say that his case is typical–so no wonder that, in the Chicago area, only 51,376 of an estimated 135,000-400,000 undocumented aliens have filed for amnesty, and that fewer, rather than more, are filing as the months go by.
Stop me before I challenge again. “Cook County prosecutors often have used peremptory challenges to disproportionately exclude blacks from trial juries,” wrote Patricia Haller and Adebola Alaran in a heavily documented Chicago Lawyer story (December 1987). Soon after, the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (December 17) reported that chief Cook County prosecutor Richard M. Daley wants those same peremptory challenges abolished to provide more credibility for the jury system.
Just say $. “Legislators in Wisconsin are seriously thinking of paying high-school girls $10,000 not to get pregnant,” reports Reason (January 1988). “Under the plan, 100 freshman girls at Milwaukee high schools would each get the money if they continued on to college without becoming pregnant.” Writer Mark Edward Crane asks: “If a woman who exchanges sex for money is a prostitute, what do you call a woman who takes money for not having sex?”
