“Despite four decades of job suburbanization, Chicago still has 11% more jobs than employed labor force (ELF), or workers living in the city, and the suburbs combined had 2% fewer jobs than ELF,” reports Roosevelt University’s Pierre deVise in a recent press release. “Economic interdependence between Chicago and its suburbs is undiminished….
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“Living near a major airport is like having an oil refinery as a neighbor,” writes Paula Cowan in the newsletter of the Alliance of Residents Concerning O’Hare, quoting the Natural Resources Defense Council, “except that refineries are subject to stronger pollution control and disclosure requirements.” She adds that the EPA “must be given authority to set and enforce standards for reducing aggregate airport emissions. Since most severe nonattainment areas for ground level ozone contain one or more airports, all the other businesses in that area have to severely curtail their emissions while allowing airplanes to pump out all the VOC’s. This is totally unfair.”
Mao! Mao! Mao Tse-tung! “The story of Chinese civilization…can be told in an upbeat, even celebratory mode,” says University of Illinois historian Patricia Buckley Ebrey, author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, quoted in a recent press release. But in telling the story of modern China, she says, “it is difficult to avoid the language of victimization from creeping in occasionally.”
Bald eagles sighted in Illinois last year in the state Department of Natural Resources’ annual survey: 1,733. This year: 2,459.
