Mooo! According to University of Chicago entomologist Monte Lloyd, when the 17-year cicadas emerge, “There can be more meat on the lawns of a suburban neighborhood than on a dairy cattle farm.”
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Good thing we don’t have yellow journalism anymore. Now it’s white. From the 48th Ward Progressive Network News (May 1990): “Shortly after Washington’s election, both major papers printed disinformation that claimed that the directors of the Washington Fund were about to resign because the Fund had been mismanaged. When the stories proved false, they simply stopped printing them without any retraction. Recently the Sun-Times printed a story about Daley’s administration replacing executive-level Blacks with Whites…. They did cite the figures as beginning in November, rather than the real beginning of Daley’s term. The next day, they printed a front-page retraction of the wrong date. We can hardly complain that papers are beginning to admit their mistakes. Is it a coincidence, however, that the mayor who was seriously wronged was Black and the mayor who got the retraction was White?”
Dis ain’t my city dey’re talkin’ about. “The Chicago being pitched to the rest of the world is the lakefront Chicago of beaches, parks, shops and museums,” writes James Krohe Jr. in Chicago Enterprise (May 1990), “the city whose new street cafes were found to be such an affectation by writer Jan Morris, the city where people go (as described in [Department of Commerce and Community Affairs’] lure brochure) to the ‘theatre’ instead of the ‘the-A-ter.’ That Chicago is a product of an essentially North Shore sensibility, a Chicago for people who really don’t like Chicago much, a place that sometimes must seem to hundreds of thousands of its own residents who live west of Halsted Street to be as exotic a place as Paris.”
