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My objection to the name change is that Stony Island is the wrong street. Brazier had no particular connection to Stony Island, aside from his Apostolic Church of God being a few blocks away on 63rd Street. But 63rd Street was very much his creation: he was instrumental in getting the CTA to tear down the 63rd Street el in 1997 all the way from Cottage Grove to Stony Island. Development will follow, he predicted—not that much of it ever did. When I wrote about the 63rd Street el debate in 1996, I had a point to make about the slapdash media coverage. My focus was the zoning that the Tribune back then practiced obsessively. I wrote:
Zoning was a matter to which the Tribune, with its far-flung, heavily suburban readership, devoted serious thought. Soon after becoming editor of the Tribune, Jack Fuller discussed the subject at a forum at Northwestern University.
We’re back on page 16 before we come to the section the Tribune calls Nation & World—the subject matter that was the point of the old Tribune.
