Q. What’s the difference between Waste Management and most hospitals? A. Waste Management only dumps garbage. Dr. David Thomasma, of Loyola University Medical Center, reminds us that 38 million Americans don’t have adequate health insurance: “You know as well as I do that despite a federal law forbidding ‘patient dumping,’ it goes on all the time once a health care facility learns the patient’s insurance has run out.”
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Restaurant reviews you’ll never read in Chicago magazine, from William J. Leahy’s visit to Acorn on Oak (Leahy’s Corner, December 1988): “The food was very expensive and not nearly as good as my own dreadful home cooking. I had a cheeseburger, which tasted like congealed mush inside a case-hardened black crust. My companion chose a tuna sandwich, which, unbelievably, consisted of a rocky piece of toast which was topped with the contents of a can of tuna, a blob which bore the exact shape of the can. This compacted bulk looked like a pink hockey puck.”
North-side condo rents may not have to go up much as a result of the recent property-tax assessment hikes, according to Real Estate Profile (December 16-January 12). “Many condominium owners are saying the assessments remained the same while they skyrocketed on other types of North Side properties.”
Despite his bumbles, Dukakis didn’t do badly at all in Chicago’s 14 black wards, reports the Chicago Reporter’s Karen Snelling (December 1988). He pulled 96 percent of the vote in those wards (265,434 ballots) in November, compared to Walter Mondale’s 1984 total of 95 percent (264,661) and to Jesse Jackson’s March primary figure of 95 percent (221,296). Evidently it was not black stay-at-homes who put Illinois in the Bush league.
