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Illinois Issues

February 1983 VOL. IX NO. 2
Established 1975


Illinois Issues is published by Sangamon State University, the Public Affairs University of the State of Illinois, and cosponsored by the University of Illinois. In addition to university support and subscription income, the magazine is supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Woods Charitable Fund Inc., and by donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of the grantors, either the university or donors.

Publisher: J. Michael Lennon. Editor: Caroline Gherardini. Circulation and business manager: Elizabeth A. Curl. Editor emeritus: William L. Day. Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle, Richard J. Shereikis, Larry Smith, Assistant editor: Patricia Burtle-McCredie. Legislative correspondents: Diane ROss. Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood, Bill Miller, Robert Kieckhefer, Milton Rakove, Ed McManus, AnnaJ. Merritt, Robert Mackay, James Krohe Jr., Barbara J. Hipsman, Bob Springer. Capitol Commentary Editor: Melinda F. Kwedar. Graduate assistant: Marian L. Heid. Business staff: Bonnie S. Roberts. Student assistants: Wendy A. Hall, Jan R. Martz, Mark Thornton.

THE BOARD:
Chairman: Samuel K. Gove, director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana. Vice Chairman: James R. Kackley, partner, Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago. Members: Louis Ancel, attorney, Chicago. Michael J. Bakalis, professor of education and management, Northwestern University. David E. Connor, Commercial National Bank of Peoria. William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield. Harold L. Deakins, public affairs manager, Illinois Power Company, Decatur. Robert P. Ewing, chairman of the board and president, Bankers Life & Casualty Co., Chicago. James T. Fletcher, attorney, Chicago. James M. Furman, executive vice president, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago. Doris B. Holleb, director, Metropolitan Institute, University of Chicago. Michael J. Howlett, partner, Howlett & Perkins Associates, Chicago. Michael H. Hudson, vice president, public affairs, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Chicago. David Kenney, director, Illinois Department of Conservation, Springfield. Louis H. Masotti, professor of political science and urban affairs, Northwestern University, Evanston. Odas Nicholson, judge, Cook County Circuit Court. James D. Nowlan, director, Public Administration Program, 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. Carl Shier, international representative, Region 4, United Auto Workers. Honorable William G. Stratum, vice president, Canteen Corporation, Chicago. Thomas F. Roeser, vice president-government relations, The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago. Samuel W. Witwer, lawyer, Chicago. James C. Worthy, professor of management, Northwestern University. J. Michael Lennon, ex officio member.


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Contents February 1983

Illinois Issues
Vol. IX No. 2
Established 1975

6     Lights, camera, action: movies come back to Illinois
By Ben Dobbin


11     Chicago's mayoral primary
By Ed McManus

18     1982 Congressional elections: redistricting and Reaganomics
David H. Everson and Joan A. Parker




22     Housing and harmony in Oak Park
By Dennis B. Fradin


2     POLITICS By Barbara J. Hipsman and Bob Springer
      The illness and the cure

4     THE STATE OF THE STATE By Diane Ross
      The Furman Commission reports

26     LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Diane Ross
      ■ Solvency and the fall session
      ■ Mandamus and the multiplier

28     EXECUTIVE REPORT By Nora Newman Jurgens
      Inauguration day for a three-term governor

32     BOOK REVIEWS
      ■ Redistricting revisited By John S. Jackson III
      ■ Recollections of Tribune's Bob Howard By Anna J. Merritt

36     CHICAGO By Ed McManus
      Hello Columbus: Chicago's World Fair

37     WASHINGTON By Robert Mackay
      Recycling bumper crops: the PIK plan

38     THE MEDIA By Tom Littlewood
      Gannett's new daily: class not mass

39     THE ROSTRUM By Eugene Kennedy
      Personality and politics


4     LETTERS

17     SELECTED STATE REPORTS

28     ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS

29     STATE STIX

30     JUDICIAL RULINGS
Governor's race over: Supreme Court rules against recount/ Murder conviction and death sentence overturned/Sovereign immunity doctrine 'anachronistic'/Two crimes; one act/ Mobil loses protest; use tax upheld on 'refinery fuels'/ Debt service tax excluded from aggregate levy limit

34     NAMES
O'Connor named chairman of Illinois Commerce Commission

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