“Even as they are becoming more effective, black talk [radio] stations are disappearing,” reports Salim Muwakkil in In These Times (March 7). “From 1995 to 1998, 9 black-owned AM stations folded.”
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The census, in one sentence, from Pierre deVise: “The 1990 Census cost more ($25 per household), employed more workers (708,000), sent questionnaires to more wrong addresses (13.4 million), got a lower mail response rate (63%), had more return errors (14.1 million), missed more blacks (1,836,000), had a higher black/white undercount differential ([the rate of blacks missed was] 6.3 times higher), and was the target of more litigation (nine years) than any other United States Census this century” (from a paper presented at the University of Illinois at Chicago in January, “Chicago’s Uncounted People: Can the 2000 Census Do Any Better”).
Go west, young couples. Far western DeKalb County had the lowest housing prices in the metropolitan area last year, according to “Who’s Buying Homes in the Chicago Metropolitan Area 1998,” a recent report published by the Chicago Title Insurance Company. Average prices of homes purchased in metro-area counties: DeKalb, $126,200; Will, $151,800; Cook, $158,400; Kane, $168,400; McHenry, $169,900; Du Page, $189,600; and Lake, $198,600.
