Sorry, this is not the end of the line–there is no line. The following facts come from the Mid-America Institute on Poverty’s October 2003 report “Not Even a Place in Line: Public Housing & Housing Choice Voucher Capacity and Waiting Lists in Illinois.” Total number of CHA public-housing units: 31,536. Number of households on CHA’s waiting list: 55,909. Status of the waiting list: closed. Total number of housing vouchers under CHA: 34,070. Households on the waiting list: 23,294. List status: closed.
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“It’s now possible to cycle from the Indiana border to the Quad Cities almost entirely on bike trails,” reports Jim Nugent in the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation’s “Bike Traffic” (November). You use “the 20-mile-long Old Plank Road Trail (OPRT), the 60-mile Illinois & Michigan Canal Trail (I&M), the 62-mile Hennepin Trail, and just 33 miles of connecting roads.” Might as well drive south to get started though: Metra’s bike-travel program allowed bicycles on commuter trains a total of eight Saturdays last year–and then only when people made reservations the Thursday before and used only one station per fare zone. Bikes were allowed on only three trains per day.
By the numbers. The average life expectancy for a baby born in the U.S. in 2001, according to the December 6 issue of Pediatrics: a record high 77.2 years.
