“It was a grave decision to pursue the Illinois Cemetery Project,” writes Evelyn R. Moore in Historic Illinois (April 1987). The documentary project (217/785-4512) will attempt to record all known historic (post-1673) burial sites in the state, and eventually publish a comprehensive guidebook.
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“No new residential development would be permitted in the protected manufacturing district or the buffer zone” being proposed for the Clybourn Corridor (including Goose Island) in West Lincoln Park. CANDO (Winter 1987), newsletter of the Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations, reports on area manufacturers’ efforts to stem the invasion of loft developers and yuppies. Kent Brown, plant manager for Procter & Gamble (North Avenue and the Chicago River), says “that he knows of 18 companies on Goose Island who have put a total of over $20 million of investments on hold, while waiting to see what kinds of land use the City will be permitting. 500 new jobs are at stake.”
In another day and age it might have been front-page material, but the joint Illinois-Wisconsin raid on a Madison-area farmhouse early in the morning of April 2 just wasn’t sensational enough. State revenuers tracked down three alleged members of the Posse Comitatus who were evading small amounts of state taxes and who had vowed never to be taken alive. The tax protesters had stocked up with more than 40 shotguns, semiautomatic rifles, and magnum pistols, plus ammunition. Said one agent, “There was more firepower in the house than we had outside.” The protesters surrendered without firing a shot.
“Men think you have enormous magical powers,” a 39-year-old commodities executive tells Sarah Hardesty and Nehama Jacobs in Across the Board (April 1987), and that may be one reason corporate women don’t get promoted–their male superiors are trying to demonstrate their immunity. Hardesty and Jacobs quote a telecommunications manager: “Earlier in my career, this fatherly type in his mid-50s said to me, ‘I can’t tell you why people don’t want to hire you, but I think it’s because you’re too pretty.’ What cruel irony–I’ve spent my whole life feeling ugly, and now this!”
