The chemicals are still winning. Number of commercial growers of organic fruits and vegetables in Illinois: 113. Number of commercial growers who use synthetic fertilizers and pesticides: 16,783 (Illinois Research, Fall/Winter 1990).
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“Segregation of kids with disabilities in Chicago is extreme,” says Tom Hehir, associate superintendent of special education for the Chicago Public Schools, interviewed in Independent Life (Spring), the newsletter of Access Living on South Peoria. “At minimum, every school should have the capacity of serving kids with mild to moderate disabilities. We bus kids all over town to get rather ordinary special education services. Kids are not being educated with their natural support groups. They’re not in school with their brothers and sisters, the other kids in their neighborhood. Having the experience of teaching in a regular high school with kids with all types of disabilities coming out of segregated settings, I saw kids grow who would have been kept in a state of dependency had they been segregated.”
Equal wrongs. From the Illinois Secretary of State’s 1990 DUI Fact Book: “Women now comprise 20 percent of those arrested for DUI, up from 12 percent in 1986.”
“The public parks established in Chicago in the 1860s were unlike earlier formal gardens in several respects: the parks were for public use; they were designed to imitate the natural landscape; and the designers endeavored to create an idealized version of nature,” writes Deborah Slaton in Inland Architect (May/June), reviewing the underpublicized “Prairie in the City” exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society. “The budding American tradition of naturalism created a palette for the landscape designer’s art; the new public parks in Chicago provided a vast canvas upon which the landscape architect could explore this new medium.”
