Illinois Issues

A publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield - April 2000 Volume XXVI, No.4

FEATURES
18 Nowhere is it written Analysis by Lee Bey
Rural land cedes to suburban sprawl. That's not nature's law. Government can stop it.

24 Metropolitan harmony Analysis by Alf Siewers
Earlier Chicagoans wanted to bring a bit of heaven to earth. Today, that's a tougher challenge.

27 Return to Broadacre City Essay by James Krohe Jr.
What should suburbia look like? Frank Lloyd Wright had an answer for that, too.

30 Snapshot: Brownfields by Jennifer Halperin

32 Snapshot: Corporate migration by Kristy Kennedy

34 Natural dilemma by Heather Nickel
We have different ideas about what to do in the wilderness.

36 Grave profits by Burney Simpson
Calamity can strike when cemeteries aren’t kept up.

38 What footprints will we leave? Essay by Robert McGregor
We are smart enough to manipulate the planet, but not wise enough to steer clear of troublesome implications.

40 Whose ozone? by Lester Graham
Some of Chicago's pollution is blowing in from St. Louis.

DEPARTMENTS
3 Conversation with the Publisher by Ed Wojcicki

4 Editor's Notebook by Peggy Boyer Long

6 State of the State by Burney Simpson
City Hall is slow to get online

8 Briefly by Rodd Whelpley

42 People by Rodd Whelpley

44 Letters

45 A View from the Suburbs by Madeleine Doubek
Letter from the Land of Sprawl

46 Politics by Charles N. Wheeler III
The rundown on the primary

Credits: Daisy Juarez gets the credit for the wonderful illustration on our cover. She drew a pen and ink sketch on special paper, then applied a watercolor wash.

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