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FEATURES
12 Fade to Black by Michael Hawthorne
As downstate disappears from the political map, Danville Republican Bill Black remains one of the most passionate defenders of his region.
18 Unholy ghosts by James L. Merriner
The feds are investigating ghost payrolling in Chicago. It's not easy to trace the web of personal connections inside the Chicago Machine.
22 Sine die by Dennis McMurray
A veteran Statehouse journalist adjourns his political reporting career.
25 Illinois politics by Samuel K. Gove and James D. Nowlan
The authors argue in a new book that regionalism is on the rise in Illinois.
28 City and country by Harold Henderson
Two new books about Illinois take an unsentimental view of the past.
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DEPARTMENTS
3 A Conversation With Our Readers
by Ed Wojcicki
4 Editor's Notebook
by Peggy Boyer Long
6 State of the State
by Jack Van Der Slik
The ' third- way' governor
8 Briefly
by Donald Sevener
32 Letters
35 People
by Beverley Scobell
37 A View From the Suburbs
by Madeleine Doubek
A gambling deal in the cards'.
38 Politics
by Charles N. Wheeler III
Lawmakers play hooky
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