Where you can celebrate World Vegetarian Day, which is on October 1: the Chicago Vegetarian (July/August 1990) lists just 11 completely vegetarian restaurants in the city–four on West Devon and one each on North Halsted, North Lincoln, North Clark, North Glenwood, West Erie, West Belmont, and East 75th.
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“To the downtown residents, the heart of the city is a playground–exciting, convenient and fun. To many of the suburban commuters, it compares unfavorably with a Russian POW camp.” That’s Ed Zotti reporting in Chicago Enterprise (September 1990) on focus groups assembled by the Chicago Department of Planning. “The commuters kvetched more than all the other groups put together…. [They] compared the city to the suburbs and thought it was hell. The downtown residents compared it to New York and thought it was heaven…. The real surprise was the hard-core suburbanites [who neither live nor work downtown]…. Their enthusiasm for the city in many ways rivaled that of the downtown residents…. When asked if they’d be willing to work downtown, most said no, citing the long commute. But they framed their answers in an interesting way. One after another said they’d only work downtown if they could live downtown as well. One, in fact, said he’d love to live downtown if only he could afford to–surely not a common sentiment in most of the nation’s suburban areas.”
Got that? North Pier’s Battletech Center has a “virtual world” for simulated combat, according to a recent press release. “By taking a non-existent space and, through technology, allowing interaction within, people are able to create their own universe.”
