FEATURES
12 Owls and bats and coyotes, too by Alf Siewers
Throughout the Chicago metropolitan region,
more Illinoisans are getting an up-close look at nature.
18 Citizen Scientists by Beverley Scobell
Ordinary people doing extraordinary work. For free.
21 NO rooms, no inns by Heather Nickel
Southern Illinois could lure visitors to lush forests and stunning waterfalls. But there are few places to spend the night.
24 Spotlight by Burney Simpson
Invisible enemy
Cleaning the pollution we can't see from Illinois' lakes and streams could hit the state's farm economy hardest.
26 Review by Harold Henderson
Save the planet, make money
Natural capitalism's four-part solution promises profit, not sacrifice.
30 Review essay by Robert McGregor
Make way
Illinois is spreading out. In the meantime, marsh hawks, bobcats, even bobwhite quail are on the way to becoming mythological creatures.
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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
China vote could affect Illinois
8 Briefly
by Rodd Whelpley
36 People
by Rodd Whelpley
40 Letters
41 A View from Chicago
by James Ylisela Jr.City's integration efforts over
42 Politics
by Charles N. Wheeler III
Time for fiscal caution
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