Table of Contents July1987

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Publisher: J. Michael Lennon. Editor: Caroline Gherardini. Circulation and business manager: Elizabeth A. Curl. Advertising and development officer: David Wayman. Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle, Richard J. Shereikis (book reviews/humanities), Patricia Burtle-McCredie. F. Mark Siebert. Interim Statehouse bureau chief: Michael D. Klemens. Editor emeritus: William L. Day. Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood, Ed McManus, Anna J. Merritt, Charles J. Abbott, Charles N. Wheeler III, Paul M. Green. Student editorial assistants: Chris Gaudet, Debi Edmond. Business staff: Sandra H. Grooms. Student business staff: Diana Liddle, Chrystal Foster, Gloria Sampson.

THE BOARD: Chair: Michael H. Hudson, vice president, public affairs, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Chicago. Vice chair: Louis H. Masotti. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston. Members: Marcus Alexis, dean. College of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Chicago. Louis Ancel, attorney, Chicago. Michael J. Bakalis, dean. School of Education, Loyola University, Chicago. James M. Banovetz, professor of public administration. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Norman Carlson. Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago. Christopher Cohen, attorney, Chicago. David E. Connor, president, David E. Connor and Associates, Peoria. Gayle J. Cozens, executive assistant to the governor, Chicago. William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield. James L. Fletcher, attorney. Chicago. James M. Furman, vice president. The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago. Robert T. Gannett Jr., codirector, Chicago Neighborhood Organizing Project. Samuel K. Gove, professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana. William C. Harris, Illinois commissioner of banks and trust companies, Springfield. Doris B. Holleb, professorial lecturer. University of Chicago. David Kenney, professor of political science emeritus, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Odas Nicholson, judge, Cook County Circuit Court. Philip R. O'Connor, chairman and president. Palmer Bcllevue Corporation, Chicago. James T. Otis, attorney, Peoria. Taylor Pensoneau, vice president, Illinois Coal Association, Springfield. Theodore Peterson, professor of journalism, University of Illinois, Urbana. Betsy A. Plank, assistant vice president, Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Chicago. Raymond G. Romero, commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission, Chicago. Carl Shier, international representative, Region 4, United Auto Workers, retired. Hon. William G. Stratton, vice president, Chicago Bank of Commerce. Samuel W. Witwer, attorney, Chicago. James C. Worthy, professor of management, Northwestern University. J. Michael Lennon, ex officio member.

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