Demography is not destiny, even at the sushi bar. Kimiyo Naka writes in the Chicago Reporter (June) that of 139 sushi chefs in 36 Chicago sushi restaurants surveyed, 41 are of Japanese descent, 31 Korean, 25 Mexican, 22 Chinese, and 17 Ecuadorian.
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“Robert Taylor Homes resident leaders went on a trip in April to Springfield and Peoria where they saw beautiful new homes that were built by the same developers that will rebuild Robert Taylor,” writes Beauty Turner in the Residents’ Journal (June). But only a few of the homes they saw were for former public-housing residents. “A representative for the management of the Madison Park Place Homes [in Springfield] said only two families from the former development [John Hay Homes] live there and two more are pending. [Springfield Housing Authority executive director Bill] Logan corrected the management representative: ‘Well over 200 people came back to fill out the applications but due to them not being able to pass the criteria, they could not come back.’”
Illinois has 116 acres of state parkland for every 10,000 acres of land, according to State Comptroller Daniel Hynes’s “Fiscal Focus” (May/June). That’s “more than double the national average of 57 state park acres per 10,000 total acres and ranks Illinois 13th in the nation.”
