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 inter-library loan. Issuing agencies may have copies available. For items listed under Other Reports, write to the publisher as noted.

State Reports

■ Nutrition Knows No Age, Illinois Department of Public Health, 535 W. Jefferson, Springfield 62761 (November 1986), 8 pp.

This small and unpretentious pamphlet points out some of the changes that take place in the human body as we grow older and suggests how our eating habits should be modified to take these changes into account. In addition to this general information, it contains a one-day menu guide and a recipe for vegetable soup.

Other Reports

■ Invisibly Pregnant: Teenage Mothers and the Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Panel on Public School Policy and Finance, 220 S. State St., Suite 232, Chicago 60604 (December 1988), summary. 29 pp., free; full report, 87 pp., $5.

Statistics indicate that more than one in three black females in Illinois will give birth before they leave their teens, and more than 77 percent of all births to teens are to unwed mothers. This study by the Chicago Panel found that 52.5 percent of parenting teens had dropped out of the Chicago public schools. It also found that two out of five of these dropouts later enrolled in some kind of educational program. A major problem for many of these young women is the lack of in-school programs geared to their special needs. Many more would remain in school if such programs existed.

■ The Future of Chicago: The Alternate Visions of Mayor Eugene Sawyer and Alderman Tim Evans, edited by Dick Simpson and Larry Bennett; available from Simpson, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Box 4348, Chicago 60680; $2.

As part of the lecture series entitled The Future of Chicago, which was begun 15 years ago by Dick Simpson and the late Milton Rakove, political scientists at UIC, Aid. Evans and Mayor Sawyer delivered speeches on the future of the city in May 1988. Both speeches are available side by side in this publication. Eleven other documents have been published in the series, including one by Mayor Harold Washington. The entire series may be ordered for $15.

Anna J. Merritt

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