When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter is aligned with Mars, go long oats and sell gold and stocks. The mystic, mantic influence of the new age has reached the pits of Chicago’s commodities exchanges, where a growing group of traders and brokers are charting the movements of Venus, Mars, and Saturn […]
Author Archives: Nina Burleigh
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Power plays: the public relations battle between community organizers and Commonwealth Edison
The fight over Chicago’s electricity franchise has sunk pretty low. It’s almost as though the hick pitching radio ads for Commonwealth Edison scripted the whole show. The situation used to be pretty clear. Commonwealth Edison’s contract to provide electricity to the city expires in 1992, and it was assumed it would be renewed. But then […]
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The last farmers in Cook County
On this morning in late July, in a far-south-side corner of Chicago, there’s a funny smell in the air. You’re passing Reds II, advertising “burgers-fries-chili,” but that’s not the source. Neither is it the Mount Greenwood Auto Body Shop, the Ford dealership, or the Saint Casimir Lithuanian Cemetery along the road to the north and […]