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Contents ----- November 1995
Illinois issues
Vol. XXI, No. 11
Established 1974

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Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action: The dividing line

Michael Hawthorne ----- 10

First Person
First Person: Affirmative action is an equalizer

Mary A. Mitchell ----- 15

Top Cop
Top Cop: Hitting a brass ceiling

Tom Brune ----- 18

Cities
Cities: Resurrecting Chicago

James Krohe Jr. ----- 21

Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy: Chicago's West Rogers Park

Jennifer Halperin ----- 26

Columns
Politics State budget system cloaks deficit spending
Charles N. Wheeler III ___ 6

The State of the State Poker games, public coffers: Is it time to rein in gambling?
Jennifer Halperin ___ 8

Your Turn The poor are unstylish now, but their problems are still with us
Doug Dobmeyer ___ 33

A View from Chicago In politics, blacks and whites do have something in common
Jim Ylisela Jr. __ 38

Departments
A Conversation with Our Readers
Ed Wojcicki ___ 3

Innovations
Lawmakers enter the computer age

Beverley Scobell ___ 4

State Stix 'Uno' language
Brian Lee ____ 30

Letters ____ 31

Court Briefs
F. Mark Siebert ___ 35

State Reports
Anna J. Merritt ___ 35

People
Beverley Scobell ___ 36

Cover illustration: Daisy Juarez produced our cover freehand on a computer.

November 19951 Illinois Issues/5


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