Let’s hope it was fast food. The state Department of Professional Regulation suspended the license of a downstate dentist for two weeks and put him on one year’s probation “after he left his dental office to get something to eat, leaving a patient in the dental chair who was in pain.”
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Yes we can. “I went around talking to all the aldermen about planning for the neighborhoods,” former city planning commissioner Elizabeth Hollander tells Inland Architect (September/October 1989). “Dorothy Tillman picked up on it and she managed to get half a million dollars to put into the renovation of the boulevards in the Third Ward…. Harold Washington said to her, ‘Dorothy, with all the problems in your ward, what do you want to put this money into the boulevards for?’ And she said, because you need a physical symbol to show people the possibilities, and the boulevards will do that.”
“A foster mother gets more money, almost twice as much money in Illinois, for taking care of a child than the child’s mother receives in public aid,” says Bernardine Dohrn in a Human Rights interview with Vicki Quade (Summer 1989).
“If I were just talking politics, I wouldn’t be where I am now,” says WXRT DJ Terri Hemmert in Salt (October 1989). “There are a great many moral values in the music. Rock gets the juices flowing. It can make people active, make them speak out, do things. Make them ask for lists of how to help…. It’s because I’m playing rock records. I just couldn’t have the same influence if I were doing social work.” How about an on-air interview with Allan Bloom?
