Dept. of kids. Natural Resources Defense Fund senior staff attorney David Doniger, in the NRDF’s 20-year report: “Once I tried to explain to my daughter, who was then three years old, what I do when I go to work every day. I told her I was trying to stop pollution–the smoke that comes out of the back of buses, that kind of thing. We were outside one day when a big bus rolled by, and she pointed at it and said, ‘There’s a smoky bus, Dad. Go get it.’”
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“Chicagoans horrified by the phrase ‘cashing in on the lakefront’ should remember that it’s nothing new,” writes James Krohe Jr. in Chicago Enterprise (March 1990). “Condos facing Lake Michigan are said to fetch an estimated 30 percent higher price than landlocked sites, which presumably adds to their property-tax bill…. And the park district this year expects to receive $27.5 million from such things as boat moorings and rental of Soldier Field. The problem is that those earnings vanish into the park district’s general fund, rather than being specifically earmarked for the lakefront. Rather than maintaining a precious asset, we may instead be bleeding it.”
A chance to pay more and get less. Executive Edge (March 1990) reports that the biggest reason corporate employees resist transfers is no longer worries about their families but about huge jumps in the cost of living. Ten years ago, a move from Chicago to Los Angeles meant a 12 percent cost-of-living jump; today, it’s 98 percent.”
