8/84Percentage of Chicago restaurant managers who say they allow patrons to smoke cigarettes: 84
5/85Percentage increase in admissions for malnutrition at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital from 1981 to 1983: 24
8/85Percentage of families in New York City with annual incomes over $50,000 that are black: 7
9/85Copies of The Catcher in the Rye checked out of public libraries in Chicago and never returned: 7,500
11/86Percentage of Chicago public school teachers who send their children to private or parochial schools: 38
7/89Rolls of toilet paper Chicago’s city government has produced this year from recycled City Hall wastepaper: 19,000
7/92Price paid at the Chicago White Sox Charities auction in April for a vial of infield dirt from Comiskey Park: $75
11/94Pieces of undelivered mail found in the trunk of a car belonging to a Chicago postman last spring: 3,000
2/94Amount a Chicago woman won last year after suing her former fiancé for breaking their 7-week engagement: $178,000
3/94Number of the 61 children murdered in Chicago last year whose mothers first gave birth as teens: 47
8/94Price of a nine-night “Schindler’s List” tour of Krakow, Poland, from Edgewater Travel in Chicago: $1,750
12/96Number of ethnic restaurants Bill Clinton sampled at last July’s Taste of Chicago: 8
8/96Square footage of parking lot that Chicago Democratic Convention planners have designated as a protest area: 85,000
11/97Average percentage of teenagers in the world’s 44 largest countries who recognize the Chicago Bulls logo: 93
12/97Chances that a Chicago public school requires students to wear uniforms: 3 in 4
9/97Number of former or sitting Chicago aldermen convicted of a federal crime in the last 25 years: 22
10/00Amount a Chicago suburb’s city council offered a Muslim group last June to abandon its plans for a mosque there: $200,000
8/04Percentage of Britons who cannot name the city that provides the setting for the musical Chicago: 65
8/04Average number of inches by which Chicago sinks each year as the land it stands on adjusts from the last ice age: 0.04
12/05Average hourly wage made by drug-dealing foot soldiers in Chicago, according to a Columbia University study: $3.41
1/06Number of weather futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the first nine months of last year: 612,000
Number in all of 2004: 120,000
11/06Number of corporations that are now members of the Chicago Climate Exchange, which trades pollution rights: 210
Percentage change so far this year in the total number of contracts traded: +1,425
6/06Number of CIA employees that the Chicago Tribune was able to identify in March through online databases: 2,653
7/07Percentage of every dollar spent at a locally owned Chicago store that is retained or recirculated in the city: 68