Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American enterprise at its worst, Al Capone has a place in history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction...
Kemp has been inspired by the antidrug crusades waged by a number of local public-housing authorities. Perhaps the most successful effort has been Operation Clean Sweep, which began at Chicago's Rockwell Gardens project. Led by the executive director of the city's housing authority, Vince Lane, the program has provided frequent drug raids by police and has planned for tenant . security patrols. Anyone entering a building is required to present a photo ID at a security desk in the lobby. Since the plan was instituted last September, the crime rate at Rockwell Gardens has dropped...
...positive light -- not too differently from France's current best seller La Revolution, by historian Francois Furet. "The French have come to realize that the revolution was a magnificent event that turned out badly," says Furet, a professor at Paris' Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the University of Chicago...
...many families, good marks are equated with good parenting skills. Says Anne Cohn, executive director of the Chicago-based National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse: "Many parents take bad grades as a personal affront." Sometimes abusive parents are repeating the verbal assaults or - whippings that they received from their mothers and fathers...
While Drexel's case is extraordinary, other investment houses are going through wrenching changes in their corporate culture as executives search for ways to cut the fat. In Chicago brokerages are passing up the chance to rent $55,000-per-season "skyboxes" in Wrigley Field, even though treating clients to a Cubs game is a traditional way of bringing in new business. Many superstar brokers now make their own telephone pitches to court new clients, and brew their own coffee, after losing the assistants who handled those chores. Even senior partners are being laid off when their sales volume dwindles...