Items listed under State Documents have been received by the Documents Unit, Illinois State Library, Springfield, and are usually available from public libraries in the state through interlibrary loan. Issuing agencies may have copies available. For items listed under Other Reports, write to the publisher as noted.

State Document

• An Evaluation of the Home Energy Loan Program: An examination of Energy Savings and Related Consumer Behavior, by Nicholas P. Hall, Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, 325 W. Adams. Rm. 300, Springfield 62704 (June 1988), mimeographed, 10 pp.

  The Home Energy Loan Program (HELP) operated from 1984 to 1986 and provided over 3,100 loans to low- and middle-income households for furnace replacements and other conservation actions. According to this report, the program accomplished its goal of saving energy. Moreover, with energy savings averaging 15-22 percent and total program cost averaging less than $900 per participant, the program was also cost effective when compared with other cold-belt weatherization programs.

• Project Chance Handbook, Illinois Department of Public Aid, Jesse B. Harris Bldg., 100 S. Grand Ave. East, Springfield 62762.

  Project Chance is a program that helps people on public aid find jobs. This handbook explains the various aspects of the program, including the intensive job search (IJS), the job club, pre-employment activities (such as education or training programs), work experience opportunities, special projects, as well as other support services.

• Available Disposal Capacity for Solid Waste in Illinois, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, 2200 Churchill Rd.. Springfield 62794 (October 1988), 31 pp.

  The Illinois Waste Management Act of 1986 established the state's commitment to volume reduction at the source, recycling and reuse, incineration with energy recovery, incineration for volume reduction, and landfilling. The act also requires an annual report on available waste disposal capacity; this is the second such report. It shows a reduction in active solid waste facilities from 147 in 1987 to 133 in 1988. Moreover, the number of counties with no landfill capacity is projected to increase from 24 in 1988 to 34 in 1991 and 37 in 1992. The report points out that waste reduction and recycling efforts, if put into place soon, would start a meaningful reduction in the amount of solid waste, thereby extending the life of existing landfills.

Other Reports

■  Final Report of The Special Commission on the Administration of Justice in Cook County, 36 S. Wabash St., Chicago 60603 (September 1988), 148 pp.

Since its establishment in August 1984 the Special Commission has issued 14 reports on the circuit court's major divisions and on other special issues confronting the court. The 43 members of the commission have also made 195 specific recommendations to the court as well as other agencies, many of them designed to prevent the recurrence of the types of crimes and misconduct disclosed by Operation Greylord. This final report looks at various aspects of the Grey lord prosecutions, the roots of Greylord and some remedies.

■   The Search for Economic Development: A Student's View of Cities in Downstate Illinois, Governors State University, Institute for Public Policy & Administration. University Park 60466 (July 1988), 66 pp.; $25.

The nine essays contained in this volume are research papers by graduate students in a seminar held at Chanute Air Force Base. Each deals with a different city in downstate Illinois. Several of the authors are or were elected or appointed local government officials. The cities covered are Champaign, Charleston, Danville, Decatur, Fanner City, Kankakee, Marion, Rantoul and Urbana.

■  Urban Enterprise Zone Symposium, Sangamon State University, Center for Policy Studies, Springfield 62794-9243 (April 1988). 56 pp.; $4.

In late January 1988 Sangamon State University, the Illinois Taxpayers' Foundation and the Exchange National Bank of Chicago co-sponsored a symposium on urban enterprise zones. The 40 participants were public officials, corporate and community economic development personnel, enterprise zone administrators, academicians and business persons. The purpose of the gathering was to assess the program's experience since its inception five years ago and to determine how it can be improved based on that experience. This document is the edited proceedings of that meeting.

■   Building for the Future: Economic Development Opportunities for Community Action Agencies, Illinois Community Action Association, 100 N. 11th St., P.O. Box 1090. Springfield 62705 (August 1988), 28 pp.; $7.50.

This pamphlet outlines strategies and programs that community action agencies and other community-based organizations can undertake to encourage local economic development. These strategies include community development corporations, community finance institutions, incubators, linked development programs, youth service corps and business venturing.

■   Arts Education Programs in Five Illinois School Districts, Illinois Alliance for Arts Education, 67 E. Madison, Suite 2114, Chicago 60603 (1988), 79 pp.

This report on the Illinois arts education pilot study looks at programs in Cairo Unit District 1, the Dimmick/Ogleby Fine Arts Cooperative. East Peoria Elementary District 86, Evanston District 65 and Mattoon District 2. A lengthy section deals with issues, implications and conclusions. One clear implication of these five pilot programs is that the development of a full sequential curriculum for all students, K-12, will be a massive undertaking, requiring not only enormous infusions of dollars, but also a rethinking of the educational program as a whole.

■   Chicagoland — A Fiscal Perspective, 1977-1986, The Civic Federation, 203 N. Wabash, Chicago 60601 (May 1988), 30 pp.

Since 1934 The Civic Federation has published an annual overview of the debt and tax levels of the major local government units that serve Cook County. In recent years the report has been revised and improved and now includes an analysis of property taxes as well as other sources of revenue. It also includes a glossary at the beginning of each section to clarify the terminology used. The emphasis in this report is on the relationship of the tax rate and the equalization factor to the individual tax bills and to the proliferation of tax increment financing districts in Cook County in recent years.

■   Comparative State Politics Newsletter, Sangamon State University, Illinois Legislative Studies Center, Springfield 62794 (October 1988), Vol. 9, No. 5, 82 pp.

Perhaps the top issues occupying the minds of Illinois legislators during the next session of the General Assembly will be redistricting, i.e., the redrawing of boundaries for the 117 legislative districts that follows each decennial census. In this issue of the Comparative State Politics newsletter, which contains an introduction and five articles written by political science pro­fessors, three are general discussions of the topic. The other two deal specifically with Illinois: one is an historical analysis; the other looks at the coming decade. The introduction is by Samuel K. Gove, former director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Anna J. Merritt

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