“You am reading the words of a five-foot-tall woman who never learned to pack a pistol,” writes Amy Feldman in Chicago Enterprise (May 1988). “If I were the CEO of a high-tech company looking for rental space in which to prosper, I’d probably set my sights on the genteel tree-lined streets of Evanston, where Northwestern University and a local team of economic development impresarios eagerly woo small firms to join Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park. As a cost-conscious entrepreneur sans sharpshooting skills, I certainly wouldn’t set up shop at Chicago Technology Park, a Near West Side project located in one of the most blighted and meanest-looking neighborhoods the city has to offer. My apprehensions would not be unusual, but they’d be dead wrong. . . . The city’s 12th Police District, which includes the tech park, four neighboring medical centers and a stretch of urban jungle south of Roosevelt Road, last year claimed the fourth lowest crime rate of Chicago’s 25 police districts.”
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And you thought they’d have to legalize it first. “Illinois drug traffickers now face heavy penalties if they fall to buy tax stamps from the Illinois Department of Revenue for the illegal substances they sell,” reports the Compiler (Spring 1988). The stamp–$5 per gram of marijuana–thoughtfully includes the slogan “Just Say ‘No’” in an apparent attempt to thwart the transaction and deprive the state of valuable tax revenues.
“The master numbers are created by coupling the mundane vibrations to form spiritual vibrations,” writes Chicago numerologist R. Gunn Hollingsworth in Inner Sight Network (March/April 1988). “One and one become eleven, two and two become twenty-two, three and three become thirty-three, etc. A simple enough concept, yet ‘master-numberness’ has been fraught with disagreement among numerologists for centuries.” Perhaps because some thought that one and one “become” two?
