State Documents
• Criminal Justice/Change and Challenge:
The 1974 Comprehensive Criminal Justice Plan for Illinois, a report of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission (1974), 50pp.
ILEC, established in 1969, is responsible for statewide criminal justice planning and for funding projects undertaken by regional criminal justice planning commissions. This booklet summarizes ILEC experience over the past five years, discusses steps to improve the administration of criminal justice, outlines programs and goals for 1974, and gives figures on state and local components of the criminal justice system.

• "Federal Grants for Community Development (The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974)," prepared by the Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs (September 1974), 28pp.
This booklet highlights for local officials and other interested citizens Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Title I consolidates all the previous federal categorical grant programs for community development into block grants to be used for purposes identified at the local level.

• "The Management and Disposal of Solid Waste in Illinois," Publication 147 of the Illinois Legislative Council (November 1974), 32pp.
The collection, transportation, storage, and volume reduction of solid wastes are discussed as well as traditional and modern methods of disposal. Following this discussion is a brief review of the Anti-Pollution Bond Act approved in 1970 and the guidelines for solid waste management demonstration grants.

• "Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities in Illinois: An Examination," a paper by James F. Ragan, Jr., for the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (November 1974), 66pp.

Illinois is gradually shifting from a system that provides care and treatment of the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in large, isolated institutions to a system that provides care and treatment in the community. The present situation in Illinois is discussed and compared to the nation as a whole and several other states; the goals and policies of the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities are evaluated; and current attempts at statewide planning are assessed.

• "Municipal Revenue and Expenditure Patterns in Illinois," staff report prepared by Norman Walzer and Dan Singer for the Illinois Cities and Villages Municipal Problems Commission (September 1974), 118pp. plus appendices.
Patterns of municipal revenue and expenditure for Illinois in fiscal 1972 and 1973 are the basic data of this report. Comparisons are made over time, among classes of cities in Illinois, and with other North Central states and the nation as a whole. Socioeconomic factors are analyzed to determine their relationship to revenue variations.

• "Report," Rape Study Committee to the House of Representatives, 78th General Assembly (December 1974), 49pp. plus appendix.
The report contains committee hearings, conclusions and recommendations, and proposed legislation. The recommendations and proposed legislation would expand the legal meaning of rape and propose changes for the courts, hospitals, police, and prisons in handling rape cases.

• "State. Local, and Federal Financing for Illinois Public Schools, 1974-1975," issued by the Illinois Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Circular Series A, Number 337 (revised October 1974), 62pp.

The report details the sources and amounts of state, federal, and local funding for schools. Included are "a summary of Fiscal Year 1975 appropriations, fiscally related legislation, a cursory examination of how the public schools obtain state revenues, an explanation of sources of local revenues, tax rate limitations, interfund transfers, and borrowing of monies," as well as "a presentation of federal program fundings..."
The two documents which follow are reports of special House subcommittees. The use of subcommittees to study specific issues and problem areas is a recent development in the House. This function was once performed by legislative commissions.

• "Child Welfare in the State of Illinois," Final Report of the Special Subcommittee of the Human Resources Committee, to the House of Representatives, 78th General Assembly (January 7, 1975), 15pp. plus addenda.

The subcommittee was created because of "complaints and allegations received by legislators concerning the leadership of the Department of Children and Family Services and the alleged inability of the Department to adequately serve dependent, neglected and abused children." The subcommittee recommended evaluation of the department's programs and several changes in the act creating the department.

• "Report," of the Special Subcommittee on Health Services and Health Finance, Committee on Human Resources, to the House of Representatives (January 1975), 42pp.

The special subcommittee was appointed to gather information on health issues and review legislation pending at both the state and national levels relating to public health services and health industry regulation. The subcommittee made recommendations for the implementation of S.B. 1609 (P.A. 78-1156), the health care facilities review procedure.

Other Reports
• Illinois Municipal Law, edited by Stewart H. Diamond, published by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois State Bar Association (1974), 2 vols. Available for $52.50 from the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Sales Department, Illinois Bar Center, Springfield, III. 62701.
This loose-leaf notebook compendium contains 26 chapters on different aspects of Illinois municipal law written by members of the Illinois bar. The chapters cover such topics as governmental forms, elections and referenda, labor relations and negotiations, police power, licensing, zoning, finance and tax, bonds, utility systems, special assessments and special service areas, home rule, intergovernmental cooperation and conflict, and the use of federal and state programs. Excerpts from the chapters are being reprinted in the Illinois Municipal Review beginning January 1975.

• "The Department of Local Government Affairs, 1968-72," by Michael A. Murray in Illinois Government Research (Urbana:
Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, 1975), 6pp. Single copies available free of charge from the Institute, 1201 West Nevada, Urbana, Ill. 61801.
This paper discusses the creation of DLGA and analyzes the programs and policies of the department and its divisions during the first four years.
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. Requests for copies should be sent to the issuing agency.
State agencies are encouraged to send significant studies to the Institute of Government and Public Affairs for inclusion in the bibliography. Address items to the Institute, 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, 111. 61801. 

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