Table of Contents

3/ Doctors, lawyers, patients, state: Conflicting views of the malpractice problem
/ Gary Adkins
7/ Alan Dixon
/ Bill Miller
10/ Land Use legislation: The Illinois situation
/ Sue Kennedy
14/ Fogel's 'Justice Model': Stop trying to reform. Punish,but treat all alike
/ Conrad P. Rutkowski
17/ Computer paves way for new code of Illinois laws
/ Richard M. Hull
20/ 55 m.p.h.: A problem of time, death and money
/ 0. T. Banton
21/ New home rule proviso stymied nonsmokers' bill
/ Jean Williams

COLUMNS

30/ Chicago: CTA a stepchild — but an essential one if Chicago is going to get to work
/ Charles B. Cleveland
31/ Washington: Can Congress make fiscal policy? New budget system on trial this year
/ Tom Littlewood

THE STATE OF THE STATE

23/ All eyes focus on state's available balance

FOR THE RECORD

FEATURES

13/ Book Review: Percy, presidential timber but not the darling of county chiefs
/ Robert P. Howard
29/ Names
32/ Calendar

COVER/ The problem of the high cost of medical malpractice insurance for Illinois physicians is symbolized on the cover by Springfield artist Ed Dyson. He has characterised the major groups which interrelate among themselves to both cause and suffer from the problem. There are the doctors the lawyers the big court settlements, the patients and the insurance companies- The issue is analyzed by Gary Adkins to his article, "Doctors, lawyers, patients, state; Conflicting views of the malpractice problem," beginning on the next page.

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VOL. II, NO. 2 / FEBRUARY 1976

ILLINOIS ISSUES is published by Sangamon State University. The publisher editor serves as a faculty member of the university. He is selected by a board whose members are appointed by the presidents of Sangamon State University and the University of Illinois. In addition to subscription income the magazine is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, support from the University of Illinois and Sangamon State University, and donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of either university, the Ford Foundation or other donors.

Publisher/editor: William L. Day
Assistant editors: Caroline Gherardini, J. M. (Mike) Lennon
Contributing editors: Leon S. Cohen, Conrad P. Rutkowski
Business manager: William J. Geekie
Assistant business manager: John E. Cockrell
Marketing consultant: J. B. Spalding
Art Consultant: Diane M. Dudley

The Board
Samuel K. Gove, University of Illinois, Urbana, Chairman
William W. Alien. Illinois Agricultural Association, Bloomington
Richard E. Carver, Mayor, Peoria
Robert C. Gibson, Illinois State Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Chicago
Philip Kendall, Sangamon Stale University, Springfield
Mrs. Randall Nelson. Carhondale
Odas Nicholson, Lawyer, Chicago
James D. Nowlan. University of Illinois, Circle Campus
James I. Otis. Lawyer, Chicago
Theodore Peterson, University of Illinois, Urbana
Honorable Samuel H. Shapiro. Lawyer, Kankakee
Chris Vlahoplus. Sangamon State University Springfield
James M. Wall, The Christian Century. Chicago
Samuel W. Witwer, Lawyer, Chicago
William I . Day. ex officio member

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