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...nightclub scene attracted both blacks and whites to hear Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers and Cab Galloway. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Alfred L. Bishop, now a funeral director on 47th Street, used to listen on his radio to Earl ("Fatha") Hines broadcasting "from the beautiful Grand Terrace theater in Chicago, Illinois." A dreamy, romantic-sounding place...
...bleak Chicago community called Grand Boulevard, this sort of thing happens all the time. "For children to die is part of the life-style," says Linda Edwards, a social worker who counsels high-risk mothers in the area. In the U.S. as a whole, roughly one baby in 100 will die before its first birthday. In Grand Boulevard, one in every 38 dies, and there are streets where the rate is closer...
Babies born into this world do not necessarily die for lack of skilled medical care. The technology employed to keep newborns alive is formidable, even frightening. In the intensive-care nursery at nearby Wyler Children's Hospital, a part of the University of Chicago, an unnamed 2-1b. boy, born in the sixth month of pregnancy, is sustained with the help of something called a radiant warmer bed, plus a phototherapy unit, an infant ventilator, three volumetric infusion pumps, a transcutaneous oxygen monitor and a cardiac-respiratory monitor...
...rioters to air their grievances about living conditions in the penitentiary, which have improved little since a state circuit judge declared them unconstitutional in 1983. The Governor also promised amnesty for those who took part in the uprising--but not for anyone who participated in the murders. CHICAGO Redrawing the Political...
Since his election in 1983 as Chicago's first black mayor, Democrat Harold Washington has been entangled in an epic feud with the party's long-entrenched regulars, led by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak. The result has been legislative paralysis, with the 21 city council votes that Washington controls more than canceled out by the 29 loyal to Vrdolyak. Last week, however, a federal judge ordered special aldermanic elections on March 18 that will probably narrow the margin and could give the mayor the decisive votes. The balloting could ultimately deliver the coup de grace to Chicago's once formidable Democratic...