$1,938,500: amount of money the Consortium on Chicago School Research estimates Chicago Public Schools elementary teachers spend out of their own pockets for school supplies every year.
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As others see us. Keryl McCord, executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres, in Stagebill (October): “This is known as a theater city. What frustrates me is that people here don’t know it…. When I was coming here from California, people said, ‘How wonderful! Such a great theater city!’ And people here say, ‘Why would you want to come to Chicago?’ Why not? You’ve got 120 theaters here! They’re holding death watches over theaters in New York.”
“There are a number of good reasons for being cautious about identifying the women’s movement with abortion rights,” according to Marian Henriquez Neudel in the Chicago-based New Patriot (November/ December). “One is that abortion rights is too narrow an approach even to reproductive rights. The right to terminate a pregnancy isn’t nearly as useful to most women as the right not to start one in the first place–the right, that is, to safe, reliable, reversible, accessible contraception.” Besides, politically speaking, even prochoice people view abortion as at best a necessary evil. “Making it the centerpiece of the women’s movement is like making vivisection the main drawing card for medical research. Even those who agree that it is necessary for some other valid purpose don’t consider it a valid end in itself.”
You know the yuppies are taking over when both print and electronic journalists can’t stop themselves from calling the Chicago Electric Options Campaign “the Chicago Electric Options Exchange.”
