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PAST ISSUES
July/August 2002
On the Prairie:
restoring our heritage
June 2002
Hard time:
Illinois is among those states looking for ways to downsize a prison industry that has been on a growth curve for more than three decades
May 2002
Terorism's cost hits home: State and local governments are building an expansive network to combat potential attacks. How far they go depends on money
April 2002
Risky business: Illinois' biotech industry will need venture capital and great minds. What can government do to foster this entrepreneural culture?
March 2002
He who filches your good name: Identity theft isn't likely to lighten your purse by much, but you could spend years rebuilding your reputation. That's why it's the top consumer complaint. Corporate and political leaders are taking note
February 2002
Political kaleidoscope:
The new legislative map reflects shifts in Illinois’ population, but Democrats hope they’ve also crafted a partisan realignment in the state Senate
January 2002
Hot property:
There are seven major bids on the Executive Mansion
this election season.
December 2001
Imagine Illinois:
Art reflects the landscape and the people
November 2001
Fertile or fallow: What's on the horizon for farmers?
October 2001
The new immigrants: An increasing number of families plot their route to the American Dream by way of Illinois' suburbs and small towns
September 2001
Working without a net: Illinois has made strides in welfare reform, but challenges lie ahead
More past issues
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September 2002
CURRENT ISSUE
FEATURES
Against history
by Lynn Sweet
This election will determine whether Republicans keep control of the U.S. House, and whether Speaker J. Dennis Hastert will get a third term.
A high-profile U.S. House race by Aaron Chambers
Snoozeville?
by Kurt Erickson
Outsiders consider this state’s U.S. Senate race dull, but Illinois voters will face distinctly different candidates.
Final word
by Aaron Chambers
The race in the Supreme Court’s central Illinois district is quiet by recent standards. But the winner will get plenty of say on state laws.
The
heat is on
by John Patterson
Control of the Illinois Senate is at stake, and the spotlight is on a handful of races.
Economic
meltdown
by Stephanie Zimmermann
Steel
hasn’t had a good run lately. And there’s a cost for each shuttered
coke-making facility, turned-off blast furnace and empty refinishing
plant.
SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY
Air
wars by Bill Lambrecht
Stephen
Forbes and the Rise of American Ecology
EDITOR'S
NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long
Given
tobacco’s hold on human culture,
government policies are unlikely to snuff it out
STATE
OF THE STATE by Aaron Chambers
Welfare
reform is still on the table
BRIEFLY
- Dickson Mounds celebrates 75 years
- Back to school: Chickenpox shot required
- LABOR CON?: Inmates train for jobs they might never get
- It’s a government job: Paleontologist uses artistic talents to tell Illinois’ story
- Amtrak’s tab could be headed this way
- From the headlines
- Carnegie library to be saved for other uses
PEOPLE
- State
GOP picks a leader
- Southern
Illinois has a prosecutor
- Shift
in Senate
- OBITS:
Robert Healey and William Linn Day
- New
schools chief hits the books
A
VIEW FROM THE CHICAGO by Robert Davis
A preacher jumps into politics
PUBLISHER'S GALLERY
by Michael E. Morsch
Tips
for Paul Vallas
POLITICS
by Charles N. Wheeler III
Libertarians on the ballot
CONTACT
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