What They Say...

Teamwork: LaSalle Street barrister Thomas Matthews and his wife make a great team. She's a lawyer, too. In the rear seat of their air-conditioned limousine, she has a desk. While he drives, she sits in back and types.

-Excerpt from Tony Wetzell's Column
THE TOWN CRIER in the Chicago Daily News.

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Most timely and appropriate is the Illinois Municipal League's emphasis on home rule for cities at the annual convention which opened in Springfield this week. Evanston's city government was well represented there.

The prospect for home rule should be brighter now than ever before, for in the new state assembly city dwellers will have greater and more direct representation than before, because of the reapportionment. Evanston and the north shore, for instance, will have their own three representatives in the house. Their senator will speak for an exclusively suburban area. Of these four legislators, three are Evanston residents. The other cities and towns of the metropolitan area will be similarly well represented, for the first time in their history. Home rule is of vital concern to all these communities. They have been too long hampered and held back by the lack of legal power to solve their problems in their own way.

They are looking to these new urban legislators to spearhead legislation which will bring Illinois abreast of 29 states which have liberated cities from state assembly apron strings.

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*Evanston Review, November 15th, 1956.