In keeping with the spirit of this special issue, here are highlights of 11 stories that didn’t make it into Our Town in 1991:
Young urban single professionals gathered at Spertus College to meet one another and hear a lecture on ways they could unwittingly be breaking the law. Prominent criminal-defense attorney Harvey Silets told them, among other things, not to use their answering machines to record conversations, not to threaten anyone over international telephone lines, not to be too savvy at sales because they might be sued for misrepresentation, not to mail letters in furtherance of kooky business schemes because they could be committing mail fraud. And, if they were employed by a bank, never to bounce a check because it could be considered a loan to a corporate insider.
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- Life at Heartland Spa in Gilman, Illinois, With Then Executive Director Susan Witz
Bonita Marx, owner of the only Chicago art gallery devoted to the contemporary studio-glass movement, said during an interview, “There’s a tremendous amount of loss in the creation of this work. It’s an unforgiving medium. It breaks.”
- Fred Roti’s First Day of the Rest of His Life
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photos/Marc PoKempner, Richard Younker.
