Liposuction, rhinoplasty (nose jobs), and breast augmentation are the three most popular surgical procedures asked of cosmetic surgeons and liposuction surgeons, according to their trade associations–and November and December are their busiest months.
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Honest, Ebenezer, it’s cheaper not to let them freeze to death. This holiday thought from Joe Bute and Thom Clark in ONE Reports (Fall 1988): “It costs the City of Chicago and the County of Cook about $1,500 for the burial of each homeless person who dies from exposure. It costs an emergency shelter about $290 for one person to spend the entire winter inside and warm–free from the fear of freezing to death. So why is it that Pat ‘Stop ’em at the Border’ McGinnis, president of the Four Corners Block Club, wants our tax dollars spent sending in building and fire inspectors to close down the Epworth [Methodist Church’s] Warming Center? Why won’t [48th Ward Alderman] Kathy Osterman support the Center’s request for public support, from a city desperately seeking additional shelter beds? Why would they rather spend $1,500 of our money to bury the dead than $290 to shelter the living?”
A great street for the right people. Except for Marshall Field’s and Carson Pirie Scott, on State Street “the signs of decay are pronounced,” writes Cheryl Kent in Inland Architect (November/December 1988). “There are discount stores on the ground floors–upstairs the offices are mostly vacant–with racks out on the sidewalk, and signs, ‘Everything on this rack $5.’ The homeless are there, as are the panhandlers.” The city and the Greater State Street Council are collaborating on a renewal plan. They “mean to overhaul more than bad sidewalks: they want the clothes racks off the street, and the tacky discount signs out of the windows. They want people to dress up to go downtown again.” Remember that, all you homeless, when you’re suiting up for the day in your cardboard box.
“I was overwhelmed by the enormity of it. I felt like a tiny ant.” No, that’s not a downstater gawking at the Sears Tower; it’s a Chicagoan, who was on a fall tour sponsored by the Herrin-based Illinois South Project, viewing a strip-mining shovel up close in southern Illinois (Notes From Illinois South, Fall 1988).
