Anthropomorphize this! The spring issue of the state-produced tourism magazine Illinois Now! describes the Shedd Aquarium’s training program for sharks as “the Harvard of fish schools.” It also claims that another fish, “the exhibition’s brightest star,” was adopted by the Shedd after “his previous owner left him in a bucket on the aquarium’s steps.”
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“Nearly one-third of the judges, 126 of 401, in the Cook County Circuit Court system are now women,” writes Bethany Warner in Illinois Issues (March). Do they make a difference? Perhaps not in the way you’d expect, according to research conducted a few years ago in other jurisdictions by Indiana State University political scientists Robert Van Sickel and Linda Maule. “Though researchers expected that men judges would be more likely to adhere strictly to rules and procedures, the study found that women judges ran their courtrooms in more authoritarian ways. At the same time, women judges were more likely to side with prosecutors.”
Laws you probably thought were already in effect. Illinois state comptroller Daniel Hynes reports in the January issue of “Fiscal Focus” that as of July 1, “all crematory owners will need to obtain a license,” and new licensees “will need to complete a training program before they may begin performing cremation services.”
