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Illinois Issues
July 1983 VOL. IX NO. 7
Established 1975
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Contents |
July 1983 |
Illinois Issues |
Vol. IX No. 7
Established 1975 |

6 False maps and new prospects: Illinois's economic future
By Roger J. Vaughan

13 Illinois Central College: how to provide know-how
By Norma Rossi
17 INRIC: transforming data to knowledge
By James Krohe Jr.

20 Economic development: four handles for the future
By Diane Ross
2 POLITICS By Robert Kieckhefer
Lining up to challenge Percy
4 THE STATE OF THE STATE By Diane Ross
EPTOW coalition: make trucks pay more
24 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Nora Newman Jurgens
Conference committee: the legislative wildcard
Edgar backs mandatory auto insurance
Drinking and gambling to balance the budget
Election reforms? the primary, voter registration, campaign financing
No action on education mandates; joint committee to study issue
36 CHICAGO By Milton Rakove
Round One to Vrdolyak
37 WASHINGTON By Robert Mackay
The nuclear freeze: grasping at jello
38 THE ROSTRUM By Clive C. Veri
High tech and higher ed: What can be done
4 LETTERS
29 EXECUTIVE REPORT
Job training service regions announced/ Dislocated Worker Centers/ Urban economic development at Northwestern/ Special election for Washington's congressional seat/ Lower Cache wetlands/ Hartigan and Rock set up hazardous waste task force/ Misuse of leaded gas and tampering with auto pollution controls/ Governors's Task Force on Prison Crowding
29 STATE STIX
32 ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS
32 JUDICIAL RULINGS
Direct appeal denied Mayor Washington/ The Shakman decision on patronage, Year No. 14/ No UI benefits for locked out workers/ Child custody and parent's sex life/ Expert witness no expert in state's case
34 SELECTED STATE REPORTS
34 NAMES
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