Shawnee National Forest: To log or not to log?
Bill Steinbacher-Kemp
10

Statewide grand juries: politics, politics, politics
Dan Shomon Jr.
13

Property tax relief mechanisms: Should states get out of the business?
Therese J. McGuire
15

State pensions: the truth and the consequences
Michael D. Klemens
18

Columns Departments

Politics
Health care squeeze
Charles N. Wheeler III______________ 6
Letters____________________ 9
Legislative Action
The AFSCME settlement: restructuring penury
Michael D. Klemens________ 21

The state of the State
Who's watching the lawyers?
F. Mark Siebert__________ 8

Judicial Rulings
F. Mark Siebert____________ 22
Names____________________ 22

Chicago
Asian representation: the most unlikely scenario
Manuel Galvan_________ 30

Book Reviews
Tracing Lincoln's trail
Michael J. Devine__________ 25
State Stix
Margaret S. Knoepfle_______ 26
State Reports
Anna J. Merritt____________ 29

Cover illustration: Hardwood trees in Shawnee National Forest blaze into fall color. The photograph is by Michael Jeffords, associate scientist in the Center for Economic Entomology at the Illinois National History Survey in Champaign. Jeffords is also liaison for public relations and education and staff photographer for the Nature of Illinois Magazine, published by the Nature of Illinois Foundation. The photograph illustrates the article by Bill Steinbacher-Kemp on logging and other management issues in the Shawnee National Forest.

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