Campaign finance censorship. From an October 1 letter written by the ACLU’s Laura Murphy:
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“I don’t think you can tell people this area is safe and this area is unsafe,” says Robert Mason, executive director of the South East Chicago Commission in “Common Sense” (Autumn), a publication on security for University of Chicago newcomers. But he adds that “in Hyde Park-South Kenwood–bounded by 47th Street to the north, 61st Street to the south, Cottage Grove to the west and Lake Shore Drive to the east–residents receive double police protection” from University police as well as the Chicago Police Department. “People should be aware, particularly when walking, that outside Hyde Park-South Kenwood, there are not as many police officers on patrol.”
Why the Visiting Nurse Association no longer has nurses, visits, or an association. “The corporate health care integration trends of the 1990s forced another reexamination of our mission and method,” writes Julia Muennich Cowell, chair of the board of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (VNA-C), in the agency’s 1997 annual report. “Competition in the home health care market was growing, and commitment to the underserved was shrinking. The VNA-C Board of Directors resolved to maintain its commitment to the underserved, but began to consider new ways of doing so. . . . We opted to discontinue our operation as a home health care agency and instead fund existing nonprofit agencies providing community health care to those most in need. In the Fall of 1995, we entered into an agreement to sell our operations to CareMed Chicago, an affiliate of the University of Chicago Health System. We then gave CareMed our first grant, to ensure continued home health care services to our clients, and adopted the legally assumed name of VNA Foundation.”
