FEATURES
16 Legislative targets
Partisan control of the next General Assembly
rests on the outcome in a handful of races.
by Dave McKinney
22 Political hits
Throughout much of the last century,
murder lent a special meaning
to the term "running for office."
by James L. Merriner
24 Vaccination vacillation
Should parents or public officials
have responsibility for deciding
which shots kids must get?
by Kristy Kennedy
27 The neverending school year
Some Illinois kids were back in classes long before Labor Day. And they seemed happy about it.
by Burney Simpson
30 Home work
After decades of futuristic predictions, telecommuting is finally becoming a reality.
by Stephanie Zimmermann
34 Editor's choice
The long-distance flutter
Each fall, Illinois' monarch butterflies
join a miraculous migration
that stretches some 2,000 miles.
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DEPARTMENTS
3 Conversation with the Publisher
by Ed Wojcicki
4 Editor's Notebook
by Peggy Boyer Long
6 State of the State
Thirty years after ConCon
by Burney Simpson
8 Briefly
by Rodd Whelpley
36 People
by Rodd Whelpley
40 Letters
41 A View from Chicago
The politics of taxes
by James Ylisela Jr.
42 Politics
Campaign finance redux
by Charles N. Wheeler III
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