Can I make a citizen’s arrest? The Illinois Clean Public Elevator Act–effective New Year’s Day–sets a fine of $45 to $250 for the crime of smoking in elevators that are open to the public.
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Now put it back together. “Planners traditionally describe the Loop in terms of functional areas,” writes James Krohe Jr. in Chicago Enterprise (October 1989): “retail zones on State Street and upper Michigan Avenue; office zones in the West Loop and Illinois Center; an emerging entertainment zone in River North; residential zone in the South Loop; the cultural zone along the lakefront. Arrayed on a map, the planner’s Loop looks rather like the aftermath of an autopsy, with the heart here and the lungs there and the spleen lying near the edge of the table.”
Ding Dong School…Mr. Wizard…Studs’ Place… The Museum of Broadcast Communications reminds us that “for a short while in the early ’50s, approximately half of NBC’s network programming originated from Chicago’s WMAQ.”
“The crime of insider trading has never been clearly defined by Congress,” writes Jane Easter Bahls in the Chicago-based Student Lawyer (October 1989), quoting one law professor’s proposal that the SEC rule prohibiting insider trading be improved to read simply: “It shall be unlawful. The SEC shall have the power to define ‘it’ by rules and regulations.”
