Down under Navy Pier. Chicago Maritime Society divers pulled more than 100 artifacts off the bottom of the lake at Navy Pier during this summer’s Maritime Folk Festival, reports Chicago Maritime News (Summer 1988). Most were old soda-pop bottles. “A third of the recovered bottles were close to forty years old, reported diver Dave Milligan. ‘There were bottles from the Jackson Beverage Company, Wanzer and Bowman Dairy Companies, Coca-Cola and Pepsi bottles, and an original Orange Crush bottle, all in excellent condition,” said Milligan. Other evidence of Navy Pier’s past lives included excursion boat china plates and cups, cast iron legs from old Park District benches, discarded plumbing fittings, kitchen implements of all sorts, and unbelievably, even a live three inch caliber artillery shell, which was very gently returned to its watery grave.”
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The state legislature may have done nothing for affordable housing, reflects the Network Builder (August/September 1988), but they did try: “Auto insurance was made mandatory since many people who could no longer afford housing would soon be living in their cars. Also . . . the White Sox got $30 million for a new stadium so the homeless would have another place to stay during the summer.”
Thoughts from a deep thinker you can be darn sure is nowhere near age 75. Pilot, the magazine of the Evanston Hospital Corporation, offers this straight-faced summary of a lecture delivered at the hospital early this summer by one Daniel Callahan, PhD: “To shift the focus of medical research and technology and reduce the federal health care deficit, Callahan proposes that the field of medicine should be used only for the ‘full achievement of a natural and fitting life span and thereafter for the relief of suffering [emphasis added].’ Also, he suggests setting an age limit beyond which the elderly would no longer be eligible for federally-funded entitlement health care programs. . . . The choice of an appropriate cut-off age would inevitably be arbitrary, according to Callahan. However, if he were to select an age, he said that it would probably fall in between one’s late 70s or early 80s.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
