Number of insects “on file” at the state Natural History Survey: 6,000,000.
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Hot property. According to the graphs in the Civic Federation’s booklet Chicagoland–A Fiscal Perspective 1978-1987, the total value of property in the city of Chicago rose from $35 billion in 1979 to about $37 billion in 1987, after corrections for inflation. The value of suburban Cook County property, on the other hand, remained stagnant at about $53 billion in constant dollars over the same period of time.
“Rich Daley is taking advantage of the tone that was set by Harold Washington,” says Luis Gutierrez, one of the few aldermen who enthusiastically supported both. “It might have been more difficult for Rich Daley politically [to make diverse cabinet appointments]–although I think he would have made the same appointments–had the stage not been set for the inclusion of women and other minority groups within city government” (Chicago Reporter, July/ August 1989).
Dept. of addictions. According to Harper’s “Index” (July 1989), “Portion of all oil produced worldwide that is used for transportation in the United States: 1/5. Portion of all illegal drugs produced worldwide that are consumed in the United States: 3/5.”
