By that time you’d either be better or dead. “A walk-in patient at Cook County Hospital’s Fantus Clinic may wait up to eight hours to see a doctor,” reports the Metropolitan Planning Council in its Issue Brief (May 1990). “The waiting time for a non-obstetrical adult appointment at the city’s Englewood Neighborhood Health Center is about six months.”
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“If I can gain something from heterosexual or heteroerotic art (for instance, those innumerable heterosexual Renaissance love poems), then heterosexuals necessarily should be able to glean something of universal value from gay art,” argues Paul Varnell in Windy City Times (May 17). But you wouldn’t know it from the wimpy liberal defenses of gay art: “We heard a great deal about artistic liberty, about freedom of expression, and, of course, that old stand-by, the First Amendment. But where were the arguments–the claims–for gay-related art as having a dignity and value of its own quite beyond being tolerated within a liberal society?… Most often liberals will be on our side only when we are part of a package, or the beneficiary of some broad general principle. In the crunch, liberals are squeamish about us and our lives.”
Du Page County’s new high-tech recycling plant in Carol Stream, scheduled to start up in the fall of 1991, will employ 15 people, cover 45,000 square feet, and cost more than $5 million–all in order to process 150 tons of recyclables in an eight-hour shift. Unfortunately, Du Pagers throw away 900 tons of garbage every eight hours (Barbara Hower in Inland Architect, May/June 1990).
