Not color-blind at all. Chicago suburbs that had at least 18 percent fewer black residents than they would if income were the only factor that determined where people live: Berwyn, Braidwood, Cicero, Elmwood Park, Fox Lake, Godley, Hainesville, Harvard, Harwood Heights, Hodgkins, Ingalls, Long Lake, McCook, McCullom, Melrose Park, Monee, Oakwood, River Grove, Rockdale, Round Lake, Wilmington, and Woodstock (from a February report by the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, “Black, White and Shades of Brown: Fair Housing and Economic Opportunity in the Chicago Region”).
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“Many wetland studies monitor only during the growing season,” says DePaul University soil scientist James Montgomery, according to a March press release. He’s studying wetlands in the Cook County Forest Preserve District’s Somme Woods. “I go to my field site year-round, even when the wind-chill is 20 below or when it’s 98 degrees and we’re standing in mud with mosquitoes buzzing around our heads. That’s when I say to my students, ‘Isn’t science glamorous?’”
Fix up. According to the newsletter “Destination 2020,” northeastern Illinois’ recently approved 2020 Regional Transportation Plan targets “over 80% of the projected revenues…to maintaining and rehabilitating the existing highway and transit systems.”
