Chances that your sewer is more than 92 years old: better than 1 in 4 (Chicago Enterprise, June).
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Questions we already know the answers to, from Ronald E. Childs in Chicago Journalist (June): “In all fairness, where were all of the human interest stories, including the televised visits from loved ones and home movies of Rodney King’s family life before his tragedy, as was repeatedly done with severely injured White motorist Reginald Denny on NBC’s ‘Today Show’ and other programs? Why weren’t the four Los Angeles police officers paraded before the cameras in eerie slow motion, with sinister music playing in the background, as was done with the four black suspects in the Denny beating on a recent CNN News report?”
And this is the one that’s easy to cure. Reported early syphilis cases among African Americans in Chicago, 1987: 569. In 1991: 3,896 (State Department of Public Health).
Jobs we don’t want, from a recent press release: “Perkins & Will Is Architect for Expansion Program at Beirut Airport.”
