Zazz, mine makes a strange clunking sound when I try to start him on cold mornings. “When women write, they want to know what makes men tick, and how to ‘fix’ them when things go wrong,” writes Sun-Times advice columnist Jeff Zaslow in Today’s Chicago Woman (May 1989). “Since men don’t come with a user’s manual, women write to me as if I’m the men’s service department.” So far he’s not offering any warranties.
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Eyeball to eyeball with the patronage system. CHA director Vincent Lane tells Chicago Enterprise’s Patrick Barry (May 1989) about his first meeting last year with the agency’s senior staff: “There were about 25 people in the room and I asked some questions about projects and timetables and priorities. All I got was blank stares. I didn’t know it was that bad; I thought at least people would acknowledge they were responsible for getting something done by a certain date, but that just didn’t exist.”
“Chicago has over 150 housing co-ops,” reports the Co-op News (Spring 1989), which is published at Truman College, “over 150 food co-ops, over 20 child care co-ops, and over 5 worker co-ops.”
“I simply do not understand why the Mafia in this country is not classified as what it is,” writes William Leahy in Leahy’s Corner (April 1989): “an extreme form of capitalism, a sort of pure form which encourages the fiercest of competition and dashingly does away with the slightest hint of government intervention.”
