Illinois Issues - Table of Contents - A publicaition of the University of Illinois at Springfield July/ August 1997

Illinois Issues
A publicaition of the University of Illinois at Springfield
July/ August 1997 Volume XXIII, No. 7&8

Congressional maverick, page 16

FEATURES
12 Nom deplume by James Krohe Jr.
What's in a name? Less and less that is Illinoisan in most parts of the state.

16 Congressional maverick by Gayle Worland
About the only label that fits John Porter is nonconformist.

22 Burns Antagonistes by Mark Brown
Investigating political corruption could make Democrat Jim Burns a contender in the general election. But will he have enough friends left to get that far?

28 Public employee pensions by Jennifer Davis
Illinois plays catch-up on state workers' retirement benefits.

30 Home Schooling by Frank Vinluan
This state doesn't regulate parents who teach.

DEPARTMENTS
3 A Conversation With Our Readers
by Ed Wojcicki

4 Editor's Notebook
by Peggy Boyer Long

6 State of the State
by Jennifer Davis
Retooling social welfare

8 Briefly
by Donald Sevener

33 People
by Jennifer Davis

35 Letters

37 A View from the Suburbs
by Madeleine Doubek
Will this GOP dog hunt?

38 Politics
by Charles N. Wheeler III
Resist diverting tollway dollars

Credits: This month's cover was illustrated and produced by design assistant Daisy Juarez. Cartography by Miklos Pinther,from Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, edited by Helen Hornbeck Tanner, University of Oklahoma Press, for The Newberry Library.