FEATURES
14 Hot dogs and hummus
by Maureen F. McKinney
Ethnic Europeans created Chicago's southwest suburbs. But that region is taking on a Middle Eastern flavor. Is that a recipe for a culture clash?
20 Joilet rising
by Ken O'Brien
The foundation for renewed prosperity was built on economic diversification and geographic expansion. And some lucky timing.
24 Breaking new ground
by Dan Rozek
Kane County officials devised a new farmland protection program, the first of its kind in Illinois. But they've harvested a truckload of controversy.
28 Rezoning Chicago
by Curtis Lawrence
It will be a massive task, and politically tricky. The challenge is to relieve crowded neighborhoods, bolster bus and rail service and encourage affordable housing.
Q&A
32
Audrey McCrimon
Credits: This photograph of the Bridgeview mosque on this month's cover was taken by Jon Randolph. He also took the photographs that appear in the feature pages of this issue.
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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 Aaron Chambers Foot-and-month prevention plans
8 Briefly
by Rodd Whelpley
36 People
by Rodd Whelpley
40 Letters
41 A View from Chicago
by Robert Davis
Should Mayor Daley worry&
42 Politics
by Charles N. Wheeler III
State spending blueprint
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