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Illinois Issues
January 1978
VOL. IV, NO. 1

Contents
Tax revolt in Cook County ______ 4
Inflation of property values combined with increased tax levies
By Dona P. Gerson

Senator Charles H. Percy______8
By Robert P. Howard

There's enough natural gas for a cold winter___ 11
Survey of Illinois' gas utilities shows companies are prepared
By George Provenzano

SPECIAL FEATURE: The Daley Legacy

Mayor Daley and the Suburbs———— 14
First of a two-part article by Lawrence N. Hansen

A portrait of the Mayor as a political chieftain____ 16
By Eugene Kennedy

The rights of children_______ 18
The status of recommendations made by the Illinois Commission on Children
By Pam Bruzan

Will private colleges survive?_________21
Competing with state-supported schools for a shrinking student population
By Charles E. Frank

State regulation of private higher education____ 24
Trying to transfer the function to the IBHE
By Roderick T. Groves

THE STATE OF THE STATE______ 2
Democrats slate Bakalis, Dixon, Seith and other loyal members

POLITICS By Robert Kieckhefer_________33
Why Hynes left the Senate to run for Cook County assessor

CHICAGO By Charles B. Cleveland ______ 34
Call for Action combines volunteers and radio to get problems solved

WASHINGTON By Mark Gruenberg ______ 35
Political roadblock to Thompson is the delegate
apportionment for the 1980 GOP convention

LEGISLATIVE ACTION_____27
Class X passes as part of sentence reform law

SELECTED STATE REPORTS 10
EXECUTIVE REPORT_____ 30
Collecting the RTA motor fuel tax
'Gasohol' goes on sale

STATE STIX_____ 30
LETTERS____31
NAMES____ 31

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