Illinois Issues is published by Sangamon State University, the Public Affairs University of the State of Illinois, and cosponsored by the University of Illinois

NOVEMBER 1982 VOL. VIII NO. 11
Established 1975
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 grants from the Illinois Humanities Council, the Joyce Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy; the Ancel Charitable Trust; support from the University of Illinois and Sangamon State University; and donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of the grantors, either university or donors.
Publisher: J. Michael Lennon. Editor: Caroline Gherardini. Circulation and advertising manager: Elizabeth A. Curl. Editor emeritus: William L. Day. Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle, Richard J. Shereikis, Larry Smith. Assistant editors: Patricia Burtle-McCredie, John G. Martin. Legislative correspondents: Diane Ross. Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood, Bill Miller, Robert Kieckhefer, Milton Rakove, Ed McManus, Anna J. Merritt, Robert Mackay, James Krohe Jr., Barbara J. Hipsman, Bob Springer. Capitol Commentary Editor: Melinda F. Kwedar. Graduate Assistant: Marian L. Heid. Business staff: Bonnie S. Roberts. Student assistants: Harry T. Bostick, Wendy A. Hall, Jan R. Martz, Mark Thornton.
THE BOARD
Chairman: Samuel K. Gove, director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana
Vice Chairman: James R. Kackley, partner, Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago.
Members: Louis Ancel, attorney, Chicago. David E. Connor, Commercial National Bank of Peoria. William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield. Harold L. Deakins, public affairs manager, Illinois Power Company, Decatur. Robert P. Ewing, chairman of the board and president, Bankers Life & Casualty Co., Chicago. James M. Furman, executive vice president, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago. Doris B. Holleb, director, Metropolitan Institute, University of Chicago. Michael J. Howlett, partner, Howlett & Perkins Associates, Chicago. Michael H. Hudson, vice president, public affairs, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Chicago. David Kenney, director, Illinois Department of Conservation, Springfield. Louis H. Masotti, professor of political science and urban affairs, Northwestern University, Evanston. Odas Nicholson, judge, Cook County Circuit Court. James D. Nowlan, director, Public Administration Program, 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. Carl Shier, international representative, Region 4, United Auto Workers. Honorable William G. Stratton, vice president, Canteen Corporation, Chicago. Thomas F. Roeser, vice president-government relations, The Quaker Oats Company, 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
6 The assumption of power
Excerps from QUEEN BEE, a novel By Eugene Kennedy
to be published bt Doubleday & Co. this month
12 SERIES ON WATER
Water policy in Illinois: the search for balance By James Krohe Jr.
18 Illinois' foreign farmers By Frank W. Goudy
22 Illinois appellate judges: ambivalent policymakers
By Stephen Daniels and Rebecca Wilkin
2 POLITICS BY Robert Kieckhefer
Gubernatorial debates: a failure
4 THE STATE OF THE STATE By Diane Ross
Fall session: no overriding problems
5 EXECUTIVE REPORT By Margaret S. Knoepfle
The Environmental Consensus Forum tackles hazardous waste
27 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Diane Ross
Vetoes: refinements, rewrites, rejections
Business & Labor Human Resources Criminal Law
Education Registration & Regulation
30 SCIENCE BY Julie A. Dutton
Legislative roundup
36 CHICAGO By Milton Rakove
'I don't need to know what I'm voting about'
37 WASHINGTON By Robert Mackay
Fair fight: Chicago v. Miami
38 THE ROSTRUM By H. H. Rohrer
Public health: government's stepchild
11 LETTERS
17 SELECTED STATE REPORTS
32 OTHER EXECUTIVE REPORTS
It's official: State workers to sign up for furloughs/Danville wins the new prison in stiff competition
33 ATTORNEY GENERAL OPPINIONS/ STATE STIX
34 JUDICIAL RULINGS
Warrantless search of an automobile
34 NAMES |