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Other big American cities have been plagued 'with similar incidents. One roving Chicago gang, the Simon City Royals, based in the city's white middle-class Avondale neighborhood, had been tied to as many as 150 robberies last spring in more than a score of suburban towns. Using six stolen four-wheel-drive vehicles, gang members pulled up to houses, emptied them of jewelry, stereos and VCRS, then sold the stolen items through a tavern owner. After 16 of the gang's members were arrested, Chicago Police Sergeant John Nalepa said, "It was the first time I'd seen anything...
Shoppers often enjoy a museum store's ambience. However crowded the gift shopgets, it suggests an artistic milieu impossible to find in, say, a K mart. Says Cindy Marano, a Washington resident who was visiting Chicago's Art Institute last week: "Museum shops are a wonderful place to buy presents. At malls everything seems the same and impersonal...
Anyone who is 67 years old and has a personal fortune of more than $150 million has a right to relax. But then, John Johnson is not just anyone. "I run scared," says the wealthiest black businessman in America. "I came from the welfare rolls of Chicago." Still driven by the restless ambition that pulled him out of the ghetto, the chairman of Chicago-based Johnson Publishing, the largest U.S. black-owned company (1984 revenues: $139 million) works twelve-hour days and shows no signs of slacking off. Not content to preside over Ebony and Jet magazines, three radio stations...
...publication, MBM: Modern Black Man, has a year's head start, and several other magazines aimed at black men have folded in recent years. But no one in the industry is underestimating Johnson, whose 40-year-old Ebony has a circulation of 1.8 million. Says Don Jackson, president of Chicago's Central City Marketing: "Johnson will convince advertisers. I think Ebony Man's going to make...
...young man, Johnson realized that taking risks was the only way to rise above the crowd, especially for a black. In 1939, while still an office boy at Chicago's Supreme Life Insurance Co., he pawned his mother's furniture for $500 and sent letters to 20,000 of the company's customers, inviting them to subscribe to a proposed magazine called Negro Digest. About 3,000 people sent in $2 each, and Johnson was on his way. Negro Digest lasted only twelve years, but a second Johnson magazine, Ebony, quickly became the journal of black America. Packed with news...