Cat houses. “Most buildings will only accept cats that are neutered and declawed,” writes Kevin Knapp in Real Estate Profile (September 14). “This policy has become so widespread that the term ‘apartment ready cat’ has been developed to describe the only kind of feline highrises find acceptable.”
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“As a pastime, theatergoing outpaces all professional sports except baseball,” writes Lawrence Bommer in Chicago Enterprise (September 1990). “But the theater-going public doesn’t seem to be growing. According to the League of Chicago Theaters, over the last three seasons the total attendance at professional theaters here has remained fixed–between 2.7 million and 2.95 million…. The total number of Chicago-area theaters is well over 200; 15 years ago there were one-third that number.”
“The people who created the North Branch Prairie Project started off simply wanting to save some rare prairies, using their bare hands and open minds,” writes Jill Riddell in NBPP’s newsletter Prairie Projections (August 1990). “It seemed, on the surface, as though people would be about as willing to volunteer for stewardship work for the good of an ecological community as they would be for laying sewer pipe for the good of their human community…. A big part of what makes stewardship work compelling, outside of its innate importance, is that it is an opportunity–a rare opportunity–for a person to have a direct, tangible, positive effect on his or her environment.”
Lest we forget. “After graduation no one would hire me,” Dee DeCarlo tells Today’s Chicago Woman (September 1990). “I had my degree in my hand, went job-hunting and was turned down right and left. It was ’69, and I was told outright, ‘We don’t hire women accountants.’ This was an amazement to me since I was willing to work, had good grades and had been told all my life by my parents that I could do anything I wanted. Yet I saw boys, boys who frankly I’d pulled through classes and gotten through school, getting jobs ahead of me.”
