Where is the world’s largest gum ball factory? According to the Greater North Pulaski Development Corporation, at Leaf, Inc., 1155 N. Cicero.
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Many University of Illinois women “dread the very thought of having to learn to use computers,” according to research involving more than 3,000 students in dormitories equipped with personal computers. Men made up 77 percent of the residence-hall computer users, women 23 percent–figures that could bode ill for the future success of women in computer-dominated workplaces.
“We have to do something to convince the public that we have standards,” State’s Attorney Richard M. Daley told the Chicago Bar Association last month. According to Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reporter Katherine Schweit (December 17), “Members of the audience snickered when Daley said he would like to see CBA support for enactment of a professional misconduct law.”
Reform via T-shirt. “On my very first day [as city planning commissioner in 1983], I was brought a possible design for the Department of Planning softball team T-shirt, recalls Elizabeth Hollander in One City (December 1987). “It said, ‘Department of Planning Lounge, 121 N. LaSalle St.’ and it had a beer-sign shield that said, ‘Old Hollander.’ I told them that I didn’t want to be a bad sport, but I think a lounge is the worst possible symbol for a city department. Old Hollander? Well, at least ‘Hollander New Style!’”
