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: Diane Ross
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: Bonnie S. Roberts
Student staff: Cheryl A. Tinsley, Claudia
L. Woolridge, Cynthia L. Konold
Pat Karlak

The Board
Chairman: Samuel K. Gove, director, Institute
of Government and Public Affairs, University
of Illinois, Urbana
Vice Chairman: Thomas F. Roeser, 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

6The new federalism in Illinois
By Thomas J. Anton

16ILLINOIS PRIMARY ELECTIONS
Thompson and Stevenson write their tickets
By Al Manning

23 Lower education: matching expectations to reality
By Diane Ross

27Peddling possibilities:
the bike option
By James Krohe Jr.

2 THE STATE OF THE STATE By Diane Ross
What Thompson didn't say

4 Poltics By Robert Kieckhefer
Will it be Ryan, Totten or Catania?

30 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Diane Ross
Appropriations: no highs and new lows

37 CHICAGO By Milton Rakove
'Elevate them guns a little lower!'

38 WASHINGTONBy Robert Mackay
And the winner is ---

39 THE ROSTRUM By Robert B. Ralls
Public/ private partnership: Rhetoric or reality?

LETTERS__________5

EXECUTIVE REPORT_______ 33
By Cheryl Frank
Judge stays ban on double-celing/Employment and training councils/State and Chrysler close loan/Food Stamp Program gets 'reward'

STATE SIX_______ 33

JUDICIAL RULINGS__________34
By Cheryl Frank
Court upholds death penalty/Admission of polygraph evidence 'plan error'/Court says no to commerical lumbering in state parks

NAMES_____________35
Fryzel heads Department of Financial Institutions/Castle resigns from DCCA

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