Review: ‘Friends Disappear’ by Mary Barr
At first glance, the photograph that once hung on Mary Barr's refrigerator door upholds Evanston's widely praised reputation for integrated education and open housing. The 1974 photo depicts 13 black...
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DESPITE WORRIES, SUBURBANITES WANT CHANGE
Between downtown and the farm, in that part of the country where so many hoped to find the best of both worlds, America`s suburbanites are finding that nothing is perfect....
SUBURBAN DREAM TURNS UNEASY
Anxiety grows amid the crabgrass. Seven weeks before the first presidential election in which most votes probably will be cast in the suburbs, American suburbanites are edgier than the borders...
REPUBLICANS` PARTIES: FUN, FOOD AND FINANCE
The weather has been unseasonably mild-Monday and Tuesday saw record low temperatures in the 60s-but it`s still a lousy week to get married here. Getting a church might not be...
SAMPLING SOME VOICES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND
If a candidate`s electability is in the eye of the beholder, then Paul Tsongas` main task is to be seen as more than a regional candidate. That`s clear from a...
PROPOSED TRIMS JUST DON`T CUT IT, KIMBROUGH IS TOLD
Chicago Schools Supt. Ted Kimbrough Monday was proposing up to $8 million in administrative cuts at the school board`s headquarters, but board members were pushing for even more to offset...
INTEGRATION OFTEN TESTS MINORITY STUDENTS` IDENTITIES
At Chicago`s Brother Rice High School, where separate black and white proms were held last weekend, some students hope next year`s graduating class will be dancing together at a single...
STUDENTS TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF GULF CONFLICT
For 17-year-old Madiha Ahang, the gulf war is terrifying. A native of Afghanistan, she has seen war before. In her neighborhood. In front of her house. She has seen bombs...
SCHOOL REFORMERS ARE POISED TO TRY AGAIN
When the Illinois Supreme Court ruled the Chicago School Reform Act unconstitutional Friday, city, state and school officials moved quickly to suggest that the problem was a simple technicality, relatively...
PARENTS CONVICTED FOR SON`S TRUANCY
Each school day morning in October, 15-year-old Dyone Dorsey left his West Side home to catch the bus to Amundsen High School on the city`s North Side. But for 17...