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FOR THE RECORD FEATURES COVER/The state's vast coal resources are
depicted in the coyer illustration symbolizing the
relationship between the Peabody Coal Company
# 10 mine and the; nearby Kincaid Power Plant
operated by Commonwealth Edison Company.
The artist is Diane M. Dudley of Springfield. The
Peabody # 10 mine and Kincaid plant relationship
is explained in the context of using coal to meet,
in the short term, the nation's energy problems by
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VOL. I, NO. 10/OCTOBER 1975
Table of contents
291/Fiscal 1976 state budget: Vetoes, vetoes, more vetoes
/Special Staff Report
295/Big Jim
/Charles B. Cleveland
299/The Nuclear Option
/William H. Rauckhorst
302/Solid black gold: Illinois' coal and America's energy-economy-ecology dilemma
/DonaldS. Kline
306/County government in transition
/Philip B. Elfstrom and Jay Smith
309/Ford's gas tax proposal: The good news and the bad news
/O. T. Banton
310/How to get your drinking water tested by the state
/Peter K. Lennon
318/Chicago: Stolen elections? Close look at voting habits discredits charge
/Charles B. Cleveland
319/Washington: Public employees' wages, hours involved in Supreme Court case
/Tom Littlewood
311/What happened to the governor's legislative program?
313/Legislative Action
314/Executive Report: School aid payments
/Attorney General's Opinions
315/Con-Con voting
/David Everson
316/Names
317/Selected state reports
320/Calendar
Assistant editors: Caroline Gherardini, J. M. (Mike) Lennon
Contributing editors: Leon S. Cohen Conrad P. Rutkowski
Business manager: William J. Geekie
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The Board 290 / Illinois Issues / October 1975
William W. Allen, Illinois Agricultural Association, Bloomington
Richard F. Carver, Mayor, Peoria
Robert C. Gibson, Illinois State Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Chicago
Philip Kendall, Sangamon State University, Springfield
Mrs. Randall Nelson, Carbondale
Odas Nicholson, Lawyer, Chicago
James D. Nowlan, University of Illinois, Circle Campus
James T. Otis, Lawyer, Chicago
Theodore Peterson, University of Illinois, Urbana
Honorable Samuel H. Shapiro, Lawyer, Kankakee
Chris Vlahoplus, Sangamon State University, Springfield
James M. Wall, The Christian Century. Chicago
Samuel W. Witwer, Lawyer, Chicago
William L. Day, ex officio member
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