FEATURES
14 How high the bar?
Judicial races are becoming
more like other campaigns.
by Aaron Chambers
18 Benchmark contributions
Cook County court primary candidates
solicited big campaign bucks.
by John Flynn Rooney
21 Judicious spending
Interest groups expect to put more
of their money into judicial races.
by Aaron Chambers
23 Power play for Illinois
Races in this state could help tip
the partisan balance in Congress.
by Lucio Guerrero
26 Political studies
We get more information from paid
political ads.
by John Carpenter
29 La diferencia
Illinois' Latino voters could help put
a president in office.
by Kristy Kennedy
32 Campaign harvest?
Patience with federal farm policy
could expire with the elections.
by Chuck Abbott
35 Books
Farm loss in America's heartland
by Maureen F. McKinney
36 Point of View
Potemkin farms
by Harold Henderson
39 Guest essay
At the city's edges
by Alan P. Mammoser
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DEPARTMENTS
3 Conversation with the Publisher
by Ed Wojcicki
4 Editor's Notebook
by Peggy Boyer Long
6 State of the State
Do political polls displace issues?
by Burney Simpson
8 Briefly
by Rodd Whelpley
42 People
by Rodd Whelpley
45 A View from the Suburbs
Drunken drivers still hit the roads
by Madeleine Doubek
46 Politics
A challenge for lawmakers
by Charles N. Wheeler III
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