Silicon Alley? It’s in the works, according to Vanessa Hughes, writing in Chicago Software Newspaper: “A software company business incubator district [is] slated to spring up in the South Loop….The plan is to designate an area of the city for IT [information technology] companies to set up shop in older underutilized buildings. The city is looking at the upper stories of B and C buildings–which are those built around 1900-1920 and some that were built in the 60s.”
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“Chicago’s empowerment zone falls short of what it promised most: real jobs and private investment,” writes Burney Simpson in the Chicago Reporter (June). “In February, consultants hired by the city estimated that the $43.3 million awarded so far would create 4,448 jobs. But a survey of grant recipients by The Chicago Reporter revealed 283 full-time jobs, all of them staff positions [mostly in social services], guaranteed solely for the life of the grants.”
Things left-wingers don’t want to know. “We are inclined to look at gay liberation as the sole factor leading to our acceptance into society,” writes Daniel Harris in The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, “as if we had achieved the progress we have made in gay rights exclusively by locking horns with our enemies…when in fact the preconditions for the strides we have made are far more complex. It is not an accident that we were accepted by mainstream America first as consumers and only second as morally respectable citizens. The one did not simply precede the other, it made it possible.”
