Help for the underprivileged. This past winter, according to the Chicago Academy of Sciences newsletter Newscast (Spring 1990), “the Academy presented its Dino-Rama! exhibit at four suburban shopping centers in a cooperative agreement with JMB Properties Urban Company. This special outreach program gave families who may not visit the city’s museums very often a chance to learn about prehistoric life and see the same giant moving, growling dinosaurs that appeared in the Academy’s 1988 Dino-Rama! exhibit.” Gosh– maybe it will attract some of those timid suburbanites back to Lincoln Park to see the rest of the academy, not to mention a real giant moving, growling city.
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Press releases we didn’t want to read the rest of: “Imagine your home or office from a fire’s point of view.”
“Right now, you can get a better tax break by raising thoroughbred horses in Illinois than for raising kids,” says state treasurer candidate Pat Quinn, arguing for his package of state tax reforms, especially an increase in the personal exemption–as opposed to “quick-fix tax propositions that don’t actually reduce taxes and leave Illinois’ unfair tax code intact.”
