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July/August 2006
Renewal: Disturbed land can return to its natural state and we can learn from the transformation
June 2006
Fallout: States face a fraying lifeline
May 2006
Higher and higher:
With no respite in sight from rising fuel prices, policy makers face increasing pressure to find solutions
April 2006
Whose rights?
No matter how the U.S. Supreme Court reacts to Roe, other jurisdictions have reframed the abortion debate to focus on the status of the fetus.
March 2006
Over the top: Illinoisans head the national debate over money and politics
February 2006
Rating game: You got trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with V for video toys
January 2006
Beginnings: Another political season is on the horizon
December 2005
Out there:
What's in store for public art?
November
2005
Uncle Sam's pocket: Where there's federal cash the states choose to follow
October
2005
Coming or going? Comfortable and reliable passenger trains used to run in Illinois, and they might again if Congress quits arguing about Amtrak and starts talking about trains.
September
2005
Pipe dream? States try to snuff out meth on their own
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September 2006 CURRENT ISSUE • SUBSCRIBE TO ILLINOIS ISSUES
FEATURES
Left behind: Young, black and male
by Robert Joiner
Neither an economic boom nor poverty programs had much effect
Campaign lifelines by Bethany Carson
While Republican legislative candidates risk drowning in Chicago's northwest suburbs, downstate Democrats swim in increasingly conservative waters.
No simple answers by Christopher Wills
How often do police engage in racial profiling?
GUEST ESSAY
Second century by Jonathan F. Fanton
Illinois has set the pace in juvenile justice reforms for more than a hundred years. But this state must continue to take the lead.
BOOKS
Shape shifting by James Krohe Jr.
Everyone thinks they know what it is. Yet a new assessment of sprawl would seem to be welcome among its critics.
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long
The nation will pay for failing to invest in its young black males
STATE OF THE STATE by Bethany Carson
Unconventional candidates test whether Fred and Ethel are ready for change
BRIEFLY
PEST WATCH
Emerald ash borer beetle reaches state
GROW YOUR OWN
Project helps low-income areas recruit teachers
POLLUTING PILLS
Drug disposal program helps environment
UPDATES
SUMMER DOCKET
Feds shine spotlight on governor's hiring
Borrowed time
TIMELINE
Fitzgerald's convictions
Illinois is ahead in welfare reform
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
Sparta complex opens
Chief judge's suit going to trial
Could court decision mean early remap?
SOYBEANS
Research offers potential relief
AG ED
Farming is more than corn and beans
GREEN ARCHITECTURE
Museum features natural designs
PEOPLE
POWERED UP
Tim Anderson
CAPITOL ARCHITECT
Donald McLarty
EX-AIDE SENTENCED
Michael Tristano
NEW JUSTICE
Anne Burke
ADMINISTRATIVE MOVES
Cheryle Jackson, David Ellis
Son takes father's place on Cook Count ballot
Todd Stroger
LEGISLATOR RETIRES
State Rep. Larry McKeon
State reporter goes national
Christi Parsons
ANOTHER CHALLENGE
Abner Mikva
State ethics chief
James Brennan
SENTENCED
Alexandra "Andrea" Coutretsis
ENDS AND MEANS by Charles N. Wheeler III
A shroud of government
secrecy threatens the notion
of
self-government
ILLINOIS ISSUES 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Retrospectives
Three decades of public affairs journalism
PART 1: Welfare reform, Tax caps, and Capital punishment
PART 2: Patronage rulings, Cutback Amendment, Judicial subdistricts
PART 3: Energy resources, Water commerce, Economic subsidies
PART 4: Editorial cartoons, Public art, Political fiction, Classic architecture, Web literature
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