Illinois Issues is published by Sangamon State University, the Public Affairs University of the State of Illinois, and cosponsored by the University of Illinois
Illinois Issues
February 1983 VOL. IX NO. 2
Established 1975
Illinois Issues is published by Sangamon State University, the Public Affairs University of the State of Illinois, and cosponsored by the University of Illinois. In addition to university support and subscription income, the magazine is supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Woods Charitable Fund Inc., and by donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of the grantors, either the university or donors.
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February 1983 |
Illinois Issues |
Vol. IX No. 2
Established 1975 |
6 Lights, camera, action: movies come back to Illinois
By Ben Dobbin
11 Chicago's mayoral primary
By Ed McManus
18 1982 Congressional elections: redistricting and Reaganomics
David H. Everson and Joan A. Parker
22 Housing and harmony in Oak Park
By Dennis B. Fradin
2 POLITICS By Barbara J. Hipsman and Bob Springer
The illness and the cure
4 THE STATE OF THE STATE By Diane Ross
The Furman Commission reports
26 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Diane Ross
■ Solvency and the fall session
■ Mandamus and the multiplier
28 EXECUTIVE REPORT By Nora Newman Jurgens
Inauguration day for a three-term governor
32 BOOK REVIEWS
■ Redistricting revisited By John S. Jackson III
■ Recollections of Tribune's Bob Howard By Anna J. Merritt
36 CHICAGO By Ed McManus
Hello Columbus: Chicago's World Fair
37 WASHINGTON By Robert Mackay
Recycling bumper crops: the PIK plan
38 THE MEDIA By Tom Littlewood
Gannett's new daily: class not mass
39 THE ROSTRUM By Eugene Kennedy
Personality and politics
4 LETTERS
17 SELECTED STATE REPORTS
28 ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS
29 STATE STIX
30 JUDICIAL RULINGS
Governor's race over: Supreme Court rules against recount/ Murder conviction and death sentence overturned/Sovereign immunity doctrine 'anachronistic'/Two crimes; one act/ Mobil loses protest; use tax upheld on 'refinery fuels'/ Debt service tax excluded from aggregate levy limit
34 NAMES
O'Connor named chairman of Illinois Commerce Commission
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