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PAST ISSUES
May 2004
Latino power:
A rising population is pushing political change.
April
2004
Deadly migration:
Chicago police are cracking down on drugs and murder. So gangs
are following the dollar signs to suburbs and small towns.
March
2004
Global classroom:
Educators search for new ways to teach Illinois' increasingly
diverse school poplulation
February
2004
The economy:
Some companies are using red ink to rewrite worker benefits
January
2004
How's
he governing? At the end of the first quarter he's got game
December
2003 Perspectives:
Do mass markets diminish choices in art and culture?
November
2003
Capitol Action:
Much is at stake as lawmakers head into veto session
October
2003
Two new directors tackle two tough agencies:
Bryan Samuels director of Children and Family Services and Roger
Walker Director of Corrections
September 2003
A cop's prosecutor:
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald takes crime fighting personally
June 2003
Getting there:
Finding the cash to go to college is Turning out to be almost
as tough as attending the classes
More past
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June 2004
CURRENT ISSUE
FEATURES
Labor friendly by Pat Guinane
The governor is good to workers. Unless he’s their boss.
Certified mess by Bethany Carson
Frustration fueled efforts to gain a stronger hand in setting teacher qualifications.
Transformation
by Curtis Lawrence
Critics worry Chicago’s redevelopment of public housing will leave some residents with nowhere to go.
SPOTLIGHT
Education rewrite by Beverley Scobell
Illinois adjusts to the requirements of federal law.
GUEST ESSAY
Urban agriculture by La Donna Redmond
SNAPSHOT
Java justice by Jamie Fetty
EDITOR'S
NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long
We have only ourselves to blame if the budget is a dry hole and the rhetoric is hot
STATE
OF THE STATE by Pat Guinane
The legislature is by no means
Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s lone straw man
BRIEFLY
- LEGI
CHECKLIST
- Education overhaul?
- Consolidated communications
- NUTS AND BOLTS: State says it’s spending to save
- Fired warden dies
in Kosovo after taking UN police job
- NEWS BITES: Durbin takes campaign role
- NEWS BITES:White supremacist convicted
- Methamphetamine labs spread across the state
- METH RESTRICTION: Limits on medicine sales
- PHOTO ESSAY :
Collegiate Artists Competition
PEOPLE
- OBITS: Vince Demuzio, Ralph Dunn, Anthony Scariano
ENDS
AND MEANS by Charles N. Wheeler III
Entrusted with government
in Springfield, the Democrats blew it
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