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Illinois Issues

September 1979 VOL. V, NO. 9

ILLINOIS ISSUES is published by Sangamon State University. The magazine's board is appointed by the presidents of Sangamon State University and the University of Illinois. In addition to subscription income the magazine is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, support from the University of Illinois and Sangamon State University, and donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of either university, the Ford Foundation or other donors.

Publisher: J. Michael Lennon
Editor: Caroline Gherardini
Circulation director: John E. Cockrell
Editor emeritus: William L. Day
Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle,
            Richard J. Shereikis
Fulfillment manager: Elizabeth A. Curl
Legislative correspondent: Gary Adkins
Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood,
      Bill Miller, Robert Kieckhefer,
      Mark Gruenberg, Milton Rakove,
      Ed McManus, Anna J. Merritt,
      Larry Smith, Beverly Fleming
Artist: Ed Dyson
Business staff: Jan Griswold
Student staff: Celeste Quinn, Roberta
      deKay, John E. Willams
     

The Board
Chairman:
Samuel K Gove, director, Institute
      of Government and Public Affairs, University
      of Illinois, Urbana
Vice Chairman: Philip Kendall, vice
      president-government relations, The
      Quaker Oats Company, Chicago
John N. Collins, director, Center for
      Policy Studies and Program Evaluation,
      Sangamon State University, Springfield
William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield
Doris B. Holleb, director, Metropolitan
      Institute, University of Chicago
David Kenney, director, Illinois Department
      of Conservation, Springfield
James R. Kackley, partner, Arthur Andersen &
      Co., Chicago
Louis H. Masotti, director, Center for Urban
      Affairs, Northwestern University,
      Evanston
Odas Nicholson, lawyer, Chicago
James D. Nowlan, Institute of Government and
      Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana
James T. Otis, lawyer, Chicago
Theodore Peterson, professor of journalism,
      University of Illinois, Urbana
Betsy Plank, assistant vice president, Illinois
      Bell Telephone Co., Chicago
Gerald H. Pugh, vice president and director of
      government relations, Combined Insurance
      Company of America, Chicago
Honorable Samuel H. Shapiro, lawyer,
      Kankakee
Carl Shier, international representative, Region
      4, United Auto Workers
Honorable William G. Stratton, vice president,
      Canteen Corporation, Chicago
James M. Wall, editor, Christian Century,
      Chicago
Samuel W. Witwer, lawyer, Chicago
James C. Worthy, professor of management.
      Northwestern University
J. Michael Lennon, ex officio member

Contents

4 State road plans: detours and dead ends
By Gary Adkins

7 Mandatory retirement; the golden age of unemployment
By Steven Anderson and Robert A. Weagant

11 The bottle bill falls by the wayside
By Ray Urchel

14 Illinois coal: can we scrub it clean?
By James Krohe Jr.

20 Business and labor bargain over UI and WC By John E. Williams
The long dry summer

2 THE STATE OF THE STATE By Margaret S. Knoepfle
Thompson's reorganization efforst

25 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Diane Ross
Compromise on corporate tax

32 WASHINGTON By Mark Gruenberg
Mikva: leaving the House behind

33 CHICAGO By Milton Rakove
The death of Daley; the birth of Byrne

34 POLITICS By Robert Kieckhefer
Blind primary: a brick on a top-heavy load?

35 THE ROSTRUM By Ira Grushow
The obsolescence of words

LETTERS__________27

SELECTED STATE REPORTS_______ 28

EXECUTIVE REPORT___________28
Worker's comp rate increase denied/Womens job training/IOE becomes SBE

ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS__________28

STATE STIX__________29

NAMES_______29
Quern is Thompson's chief of government operations/Rep. Barnes resigns to head CTA/Attorney General's envoironmental control division/Department of Corrections

ILLINOIS ISSUES (USPS 060-130) is published monthly (12 times per year). Editorial offices: 226 Capital Campus, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois 62708 (telephone: 217/782-0294). Please address questions regarding your subscription to ILLINOIS ISSUES, Subscription Division, P. O. Box 251, Mount Morris, Illinois 61054 (telephone: 815-734-4151).

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3/22/07 MSI


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