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In an aside, Mr. Joravsky notes that “the city needs every little chunk of development it can get.” This assertion is left unsupported: it is stated as purest fact, as though the issue under discussion were the molecular weight of argon or the price of Guatemalan coffee. But it is not a fact–it is an interpretation, and an absurd one. If by “needs” the writer is referring to a lack in regard to some important area of life, then what Chicagoans “need” is more open space and woods, not more concrete and supermarkets.
Hugh Iglarsh
I’m all for banning new construction in Chicago as well as the suburbs. There’s not a new high rise, shopping center, home, or town house built anywhere in city or suburb over the last ten years worth the trees, dirt, and grass lost to build it.
