Really. According to a recent press release, the Chicago Skyloop film–an eight-minute aerial tour of the Loop and lakefront now being shown at Navy Pier–“is shown in two 15-seat theater capsule flight simulators that give the illusion of virtual reality.”
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Everybody does it, then they grow up. “The best research evidence available suggests several broad ‘truths’ about the universality of youthful delinquent behavior,” write David Reed and Doug Thomson in One City (Fall), a publication of the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs. “Virtually all youths in the USA commit delinquent acts. Most do so in rather large numbers. Most of the delinquencies concern minor transgressions, but violent acts occur with considerable frequency. Most acts of violent delinquency involve less serious forms of violence, e.g., simple assault rather than aggravated assault. Most kids age-out of their offending behavior. All of the above have been true for decades.”
Are the kids all right? The Chicago Manufacturing Center quotes a 1996 Grant Thornton study in its newsletter “Fulcrum” (Fall): “80 percent of all family-owned businesses don’t survive to the third generation.”
