Tales of entomology, from the Illinois Natural History Survey Reports (September 1988): “With this knowledge, distribution of ant species across Illinois counties is understood more clearly. The next step is a review of the extensive soil, leaf litter, and rotten wood samples housed at the Survey.” OK as long as they aren’t part of the structure.
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“Developers in Uptown will not have the advantages that those in other communities had,” according to the Chicago Reporter (November 1988). “The Lincoln Park community was gentrified when federal funds for city improvements were more abundant. Those funds, which helped upgrade Lincoln Park’s infrastructure–a requirement for long-lasting change–no longer are available. Nor does Uptown have a solidifying institution, such as the University of Chicago, which anchored the reinvestment in Hyde Park. A further obstacle is the lack of single-family housing; Uptown’s housing stock is 90 percent multi-family (more than five units per building) compared to 71 percent in Lake View and 62 percent in Lincoln Park.” Both building permits and investment dollars per capita are up, but not as high as they were in the neighborhood in the early 1980s.
We’re submitting a photograph of Bob Greene. The New Art Examiner (November 1988) quotes a recent announcement of “the first migraine-art competition to be held in the U.S.–‘Migraine Masterpieces.’ The National Headache Foundation, in conjunction with Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, is holding this nationwide competition. . . . asking sufferers to graphically depict the debilitating nature of their migraines.”
