Thoughts to live by, from local actor and bookstore manager Bob Parker, quoted in the new twentysomething magazine Pure (Fall), on his eventual move out of Chicago: “If I couldn’t pack everything I own, I would throw it out.”
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Dept. of underwhelming modesty, from a North Pier press release in which Kris Kringle announces his relocation from the North Pole: “I looked everywhere, including New York’s 5th Avenue, Los Angeles’ Rodeo Drive, and Paris’ Champs Elysees, and no place has it all like Chicago’s North Pier.”
Decline and fall. “I used to hunt and fish, but the next thing I knew I was township chairman and then county chairman,” Illinois state Republican chairman Albert Jourdan of northwest suburban McHenry County tells Robert Heuer in Illinois Issues (August-September). “As you become more involved, you become more interested and more people want you to do things. The next thing I knew I wasn’t fishing or golfing anymore.”
The best representatives money can buy. Average total resources available to the average congressional incumbent for the 1992 election: $626,711. Available to the average challenger: $112,382. Average Political Action Committee receipts available a to the incumbent: $220,819. To the challenger: $17,473 (Common Cause News, November 6).
