Gee, all that patriarchy didn’t do the old guys much good. From a May 15 Illinois Department on Aging press release: “Men live on the average about 7 years less than women in the United States….By the age 75, men die of cancer at about twice the rate of women….Men are 7 times as likely to be arrested for drunk driving and 3 times more likely to be alcoholics….There is currently no effective program which is devoted to awareness and prevention of the leading health killers of men.”
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Good news nobody wants to know. The winter issue of “Poverty Research News,” newsletter of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, reports: “The teenage pregnancy rate has been declining since 1960, when 89.1 per 1,000 teenagers gave birth, and stands today at 56.8 per 1,000.”
“Resident-owned businesses are here to stay,” writes Annie Smith in the CHA “Residents’ Journal” (April). “They have always been here. The lady or man who made clothing at the kitchen table. The mechanic who worked on the neighbor’s car in the parking lot across the street. The candy lady who sold candy from her back door. The lady who pressed hair early Saturday mornings. Years ago, while walking through hallways on a Saturday afternoon at any given time in any given building, be it in the developments or privately-owned buildings, the smell of hair being pressed would hit your olfactory lobes….All the aforementioned businesses and more thrived in our communities.”
“The beat meeting and community-policing activities in Beat 2424 [Rogers Park] were so effective, one wonders if a new quieter real-life TV show might be produced,” write Hank and Pam De Zutter, reviewing CAPS meetings for “Neighborhoods” (Spring). “TV camera crews could come out to Pottawattomie Park and instead of taping a hyped-up show of ‘Cops’ breaking down doors, they could show citizens and police officers opening doors to the best way known of fighting crime.”
