Illinois Issues
June 1979 VOL. V, NO. 6
ILLINOIS ISSUES is published by Sangamon State University. The magazine's board is appointed by the presidents of Sangamon State University and the University of Illinois. In addition to subscription income the magazine is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, support from the University of Illinois and Sangamon State University, and donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of either university, the Ford Foundation or other donors.
Publisher: J. Michael Lennon
Editor: Caroline Gherardini
Circulation director: John E. Cockrell
Editor emeritus: William L. Day
Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle,
Richard J. Shereikis
Fulfillment manager: Elizabeth A. Curl
Legislative correspondent: Gary Adkins
Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood,
Bill Miller, Robert Kieckhefer,
Mark Gruenberg, Milton Rakove,
Ed McManus, Anna J. Merritt,
Larry Smith, Beverly Fleming
Artist: Ed Dyson
Business staff: Jan Griswold
Student staff: Celeste Quinn, Roberta
deKay, John E. Willams
The Board
Chairman: Samuel K Gove, director, Institute
of Government and Public Affairs, University
of Illinois, Urbana
Vice Chairman: Philip Kendall, vice
president-government relations, The
Quaker Oats Company, Chicago
John N. Collins, director, Center for
Policy Studies and Program Evaluation,
Sangamon State University, Springfield
William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield
Doris B. Holleb, director, Metropolitan
Institute, University of Chicago
David Kenney, director, Illinois Department
of Conservation, Springfield
James R. Kackley, partner, Arthur Andersen &
Co., Chicago
Louis H. Masotti, director, Center for Urban
Affairs, Northwestern University,
Evanston
Odas Nicholson, lawyer, Chicago
James D. Nowlan, Institute of Government and
Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana
James T. Otis, lawyer, Chicago
Theodore Peterson, professor of journalism,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Betsy Plank, assistant vice president, Illinois
Bell Telephone Co., Chicago
Gerald H. Pugh, vice president and director of
government relations, Combined Insurance
Company of America, Chicago
Honorable Samuel H. Shapiro, lawyer,
Kankakee
Carl Shier, international representative, Region
4, United Auto Workers
Honorable William G. Stratton, vice president,
Canteen Corporation, Chicago
James M. Wall, editor, Christian Century,
Chicago
Samuel W. Witwer, lawyer, Chicago
James C. Worthy, professor of management.
Northwestern University
J. Michael Lennon, ex officio member
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Contents
*Some or all of these articles may be missing due to missing pages from original Journal*
4 Voter turnout decline
By David H. Everson and Joan Parker
8 Illinois Judges: Too much retention and too little selection*
By Paul Lermack
12 The drinking age should be?*
By Kwnag S. Shin and David H. Everson
14Hospital budgets: The lean years ahead*
By Margaret S. Knoepfle
19 Local taxpayers find a law to cut property tax rates
By Jessica C. Weber
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2 THE STATE OF THE STATE* By Gary Adkins
Governor Thompson and his second term
20 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Gary Adkins and John E. Williams
The rush toward the June crunch
32 WASHINGTON By Mark Gruenberg
First it was one -- and now it may be two Illinois seats lost
33 CHICAGO By Ed McManus
Condo conversion: The human factor
34 THE MEDIA By Tom Littlewood
Favored tax status for family-owned newspapers?
35 THE ROSTRUM By Bill Day
Has tax revolt doomed our tax reform?
SELECTED STATE REPORTS__________29
BOARDS & COMMISIONS__________28
EXECUTIVE REPORT___________26
Nuclear review in Illinois/In court over nuclear waste
LETTERS _______ 28
JUDICIAL RULINGS___________26
Class action restrictions/Drivers license decisions/Drug law voided/Firm ordered back to nuclear waste site/ Illinois discrimination case/River alterations illegal
NAMES_______30
Kulas, Henry and Preston named to House seats/Health Facilities Planning Board
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*Some or all of these articles may be missing due to missing pages from original Journal*
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