“Business communications” firm whose name we wouldn’t care to have: “Creative Executions Ltd.” of Glen Ellyn.
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“Brothers and sisters who are the victims of neglect and abuse are frequently separated by DCFS [the state Department of Children and Family Services] and placed in different foster homes,” says Cook County Public Guardian Patrick Murphy. “While at times this is unavoidable because of the lack of adequate resources, what is avoidable is the fact that DCFS prevents brothers and sisters from visiting one another.” Murphy just won a Chicago federal-district-court case establishing siblings’ constitutional right to visit. “All too frequently, the only strengths children who have been abused by their parents have in the world are each other. By separating brothers and sisters and preventing their visiting and communicating with one another, DCFS often acts more cruelly than the neglectful parents.”
The best credit-card deals in the area, according to Bankcard Holders of America: Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank in the Loop (15.5 percent interest), Bank of Elmhurst (15.9 percent interest), and First National Bank of Chicago Heights (15.96 percent interest).
“An academic Sears store” is how James Krohe Jr. describes the University of Illinois in Illinois Times (September 7-13): “It is the kind of place where people may be trained to run the world; it is not the kind of place that might produce the people we need to change it.”
