ARTICLES
3/Public Aid: Welfare's chronic case of frustration
/Gary Adkins
8/The caseworker: Paperpushers or people servers
/First of two articles by Roy Wehrle
10/Factions and issues inside the Senate: "Will 'regulars' and 'independents' split the Democrats' majority?" by
/Gary Delsohn
11/Factions and issues inside the Senate: "Can the Republicans stay solid and support the governor's programs?" by
/Mary C. Galligan
15/Leo Eisel: Director of Environmental Protection Agency
/William Lambrecht
18/Public aid funding: HEW memorandum turned federal policy upside down
/Second of three installments by Martha Derthick
22/Decatur still needs water, and many think there was a good case for Oakley dam
/O. T. Banton
COLUMNS
30/Chicago — A struggle over succession? An acting mayor? Chicago has seen it before
/Charles B. Cleveland
31/Washington — Sen. Stevenson achieves some reforms in sacrosanct Senate committee system
/Tom Littlewood
THE STATE OF THE STATE
24/Thompson's budget: The smallest state spending increase in nine years
/Mary C. Galligan and Therese Sheehy
FOR THE RECORD
7/Audit critical of General Services payment procedure
17/IEPA launches state clean water plan
27/Legislative Action: A spring flood of pending bills
28/Executive Report: Attorney General Opinions
28/Judicial Rulings: "Cocaine not a drug" and "Erasing a tax technicality"
FEATURES
21/Selected State Reports
29/Names
32/Calendar
ART CREDITS / Springfield artist Ed Dyson
drew the art for the cover illustrating the dilemma
of public aid programs. Dyson's illustration is
repeated on page 5. The portraits of the Senate
leaders, Democrat Thomas Hynes and Republican David Shapiro, for the article on factions
and issues in the Senate on pages 10-13 are the
work of Mary Fredriksen of Springfield. She also
drew the portrait of Leo Eisel, the new director
of the Environmental Protection Agency, for his
interview on page 15. Jim Krohe, a Springfield
writer and artist, designed the three charts on
pages 24 and 25 to illustrate Thompson's budget.
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2 / May 1977 / Illinois Issues