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Illinois Issues
A publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield
November 1998 Volume XXIV, No. 11
A Dirksen autobiography, page 30
A Dirksen autobiography, page 30		 Harvest '98, pages 16
Harvest '98, pages 16 & 20		 Cleaning up the Great Lakes, page 26
Cleaning up the Great Lakes, page 26
FEATURES
16 Worries about corn and beans by Bill Lambrecht
International activists are blockading Midwestern grain. Prince Charles is concerned. And Illinois farmers have had to become diplomats. What gives?

20 Photo essay: Field of Dreams? by Randy Squires& Rosalie Warren
Illinois farmers are on the threshold of a record harvest. But this year that may not be good news.

22 Snapshots: Help from their friends by Steve Rhodes, JamesWebb & Howard Wolinsky
Under the New Federalism, political control is supposed to move from Washington to the states, then to communities. That's not as simple as it sounds.

26 Books: The Great Lakes by Robert Kuhn McGregor
Review of a new book from Northern Illinois University Press

30 Books: Everett McKinley Dirksen
Excerpts of a new book from the University of Illinois Press

 DEPARTMENTS
3 Conversation with the Publisher by Ed Wojcicki

4 Editor's Notebook by Peggy Boyer Long

6 State of the State by James Krohe Jr.
Making an enlightened citizen

8 Briefly by Rodd Whelpley

34 People by Rodd Whelpley

36 Letters

37 A View from the Suburbs by Madeleine Doubek
Patronage isn't going away soon

38 Politics by Charles N. Wheeler III
The schools still need help
Credits: The photograph on the cover was taken by Judy Spencer.

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