Chicago's North Research Articles

Energy Use and Emissions Impact Measurement in TSM

An equilibrium traffic assignment model is linked to a modal choice model to estimate the route and mode shifting implications of a bus-only lane on Chicago's North Lake Shore Drive. These models are in turn linked to equations for calculating the energy usage and emissions implications of such Transportation System Management (TSM) tactics. The energy equations are based upon General Motors Laboratory figures. The hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide impacts are derived.

W. E. B. Dubois's challenge to scientific racism.

In 1929 several hundred people gathered in Chicago's North Hall to witness a debate on the question, Should the Negro Be Encouraged to Cultural Equality? The affirmative position was argued by W.E.B. DuBois. His opponent was Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, Harvard Ph.D. and author of dozens of popular articles and twenty-two books. During the course of the debate, Stoddard (1929: 1) summarized the conclusions to which modern science had led him: To-day, as never before, we possess a clear appreciation of racial realities.... We know that our America is a White America.... And the overwhelming weight of both historical and scientific evidence shows that only so long as the American people remain white will its institutions, ideals and culture continue to fit the temperament of its inhabitants-and hence continue to endure. Stoddard had excellent reason to celebrate the clarity of his perceptions and the self-evidence of his conclusions. Quite literally, he had it on the best authority. His concept of race as a determining factor in human affairs was supported with virtual unanimity by the leading figures in American social science. Utilizing both professional and popular channels, biologists, psychologists, and sociologists proclaimed with one voice the inherent and immutable inferiority of the black race.

Controversy on Chicago's North Shore

Controversy on Chicago's North Shore

A Note on Clergy-Laity Differences among Lutherans

F ew students of organized religion today doubt the existence of a gap between clergy and laity of the mainline denominations. There may be disagreement about its causes, and whether the gap is widening, but the religious and secular press attests frequently to some kind of clergy-laity conflict. There has, however, been little empirical study of the extent of such differences between clergy and lay leaders in the parishes of a single denomination. In 1969 I examined a judgment or purposive sample (Miller, 1970: 56-57) of clergy and lay leaders who were members of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), a relatively conservative denomination adhering to the traditional Lutheran position which emphasizes pure doctrine, liturgical propriety, and abstention from civil affairs (Kersten, 1970). I selected 13 northern Illinois parishes that were typical of the LCA structure, representing approximately 13,500 baptized Two of the churches were from the city of Rockford (population 150,000), two from towns of about 20,000 population, two from rural communities, four from the Chicago north and west suburban area, and three from the city of Chicago. Each congregation elects a governing body, the council, consisting of adult members. Council members must be active in church life and they are usually heavily involved in parish activities. They comprise the essense of the lay power structure in the parish. They are its most influential members. If the pastor is having trouble in the parish because of his social and theological views, he must reckon, above all, with the council. The pastors of the 13 churches I selected submitted the names and addresses of the 240 council members, all but 11 of whom were men and none of whom were black. A total of 136 of these lay leaders, or 57 percent, returned the mailed questionnaire. In the clergy sample, 19 were pastors of these same congregations, all of whom returned their questionnaires. In addition, 58 questionnaires were returned from pastors of other congregations, both rural and urban, from a total of 83 which were mailed to every second pastor in a list of parishes in Illinois north of a line running approximately between Chicago and Rock Island-Moline. The total return for clergy was 77 or 76 percent.

Areas of Concern to Negro College Students As Indicated by Their Responses to the Mooney Problem Check List

The writer's interest was specifically directed to an examination of those problems which confront the Negro college student. To achieve this goal the Mooney Problem Check List, College Level, was chosen to elicit objective responses from 100 Negro students at Illinois Teachers College Chicago North and Illinois Teachers College Chicago South. The investigator chose to present the findings showing relationships between and among the following categories: (a) males and females, (b) freshmen and senior students, and (c) the various age levels of the students. The college form of the Mooney Problem Check List contained three hundred and thirty items, with thirty problems in each of the following areas:

Centers for Poor Approved

0 SARGENT SHRIVER, head of the War on Poverty, has approved some $6.5 million to bring medical and health services to the poor. The funds will go to create four neighborhood health centers within three to six months in Watts, in South Bronx, N.Y., and in Chicago's North Lawndale and Mile Square areas. Mr. Shriver told a news conference that he believes the centers will prove to be as important a break from traditional patterns in medical care as Project Head Start has been in education. Because they break new ground, the centers will be in the nature of demonstration projects, each one differing slightly from the others. All, however, aim at comprehensive services in one location, including maternity and child care, diagnosis and medical treatment, physical therapy, dental care, birth control services and drugs. Not all centers will provide the full range of services initially. For instance Watts will offer dental care; the Chicago projects will not. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) reasons that 80% of the medical needs of the poor can be satisfied through such centers. Only 20% require hospital care, such as for major surgery. The actual recipients of OEO money are the private hospitals and medical schools which will staff and manage the centers, said Mr. Shriver. Largest of the four grants is $2.4 million to the University of Southern California Medical School for Watts. But however large the grant, it can do little more than make a dent in the medical needs of the Watts population, as OEO sees them. Between 300,000 and 400,000 people live in this area, the size of the City of San Francisco. The closest public hospital, Los Angeles County General, is 12 miles away. (Los Angeles recently voted down a hospital for Watts. Although 59 % of the people voted for it, a two-thirds majority was required.) Against this massive need will stand the new center, housed in prefabricated buildings, staffed with 24 physicians from the USC Medical School, and designed to handle a maximum of 30,000 people initially. Dr. Julius B. Richmond, Project Head Start director and now assistant director for OEO's Health Affairs Office, emphasized that the health center will not take the place of a much needed hospital. But it will bring medicine to people, many of whom never saw a doctor until they reached midteens. Dr. Richmond said such deprivation is common in poor areas. To stretch physician time, OEO plans to train and employ large numbers of local residents as aides and nonprofessional personnel at all the centers. A significant slice of the $2.2 million for the Bronx center will be used to create a pool of trained aides recruited from among the poor. Under the management of Montefiore Hospital in New York, the Bronx center is designed for 8,000 families. In Chicago, Presbyterian St. Lukes Hospital has been awarded slightly less than $1.2 million for the Mile Square area center, serving 10,600 people at first. A smaller grant, $719,644, went to Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago for the Lawndale area. Dr. Richmond said OEO is aware of some 200 communities in the United States that need similar centers.

THE GOLD COAST AND THE SLUM. (A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF CHICAGO'S NEAR NORTH SIDE.) By Harvey W. Zorbaugh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929. 279 pp. $3.00

Journal Article The Gold Coast and the Slum. (A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side.) By Harvey W. Zorbaugh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929. 279 pp. $3.00 Get access Rupert B. Vance Rupert B. Vance University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 8, Issue 2, December 1929, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2569606 Published: 01 December 1929