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Contents          May 1995

Illinois
Issues

Vol. XXI,
No. 5 Established 1974

Lobbyists: hired gun at the Capitol
Lobbyists:
hired guns
at the Capitol

Donald
Sevener

10

Illinois racehorses: mired at the back of the pack
Illinois racehorses:
mired at the
back of the pack

Scott
Burnham

16

Labor: fraying the union label
Labor:
fraying of
the union label

David
Moberg

20

Columns

Politics
The days of smokestack chasing are gone
Charles N. Wheeler III ______ 6

The Quarterly Fiscal Report
Jim Edgar's budget just may work
John B. Crihfield and J. Fred Giertz___________ 8

Q&A Interview
The right time to privatize prisons
Emily Wilkerson__________ 24

Legislative Action
Suburban Republicans face a dilemma on the hospital tax
Michael Hawthorne _______ 25

Your Turn
Capital punishment: time for a little humanity
David Protess ___________ 29

A View from Chicago
Richard M. Daley remains modest, yet confident in victory
Manuel Galvan___________ 34



Cover illustration: Daisy Juarez

Departments

A Conversation with Our Readers
Ed Wojcicki ____________ 3

Innovations
Taking care of the land

Beverley Scobell _________ 4

State Stix
Deeper in debt

Donald Sevener _________ 26

Court Briefs
F. Mark Siebert___________ 27

State Reports
Anna J. Merritt ___________ 27

Book Review
Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony

F. Mark Siebert___________ 28

People
Beverley Scobell and Wendy Langren ________ 30

Letters ________________ 32

Esprit de Pol ________ back cover

May 1995/Illinois Issues/5

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