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What's different about Hope Meadows is that it is not just multigenerational but multiracial as well. Previously part of the Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Ill., 125 miles south of Chicago, this three-block array of ranch houses has been transformed into the home of a pioneering program that targets difficult-to-place foster children who are--or are likely to be--available for adoption. A quarter of the 568,000 children in state care in America, these kids tend to be older or in sibling groups; they are likely to have been severely abused or neglected, exposed...
...units" (later transformed into 42 apartments and 12 spacious family homes) on the Chanute base, which had just closed--no small task. But after two years of inconclusive weekly calls to the Pentagon, Eheart sent a fax to President Clinton. Nine days later, a cadre of federal officials visited Rantoul to negotiate a price for the property--$215,000 for 22 acres...
...competition for UAL has grown frantic now that the carrier has narrowed its search to nine sites, scattered from Denver to Martinsburg, W. Va. Pitchmen in the farm town of Rantoul, Ill., have put together $300 million worth of free land and other incentives, hoping to substitute UAL for nearby Chanute Air Force Base, slated to close in 1993. In January a special session of the Oklahoma legislature approved a new 1% sales tax to pay for tax concessions, job-training subsidies and other lures. Boasts Ed Bee, Oklahoma City's economic development director: "We have a done deal." Well...
...Micaela Rantoul, for example, made enormous prints (39" X 39") from negatives shot with an old, children's camera. The enlargements were grainy and soft-focused. By rushing the prints through the fixing process, she added a soft pinkish tint. The result is an extraordinary use of photographic techniques to produce images that no longer resemble photographs...
...from a lack of narrative development, or an overemphasis on the explicitly political. Andrew Prescott's to his sister, for example, seem no more than standard historical accounts, from a radical perspective, of America's staggering towards independence. A frightening glimpse of the imperialist mind in its heyday, Stuart Rantoul's letters to Teddy Roosevelt have strikingly little literary merit...