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You would think that a governor who restored the state of Illinois’ low reputation for creditworthiness while creating stable conditions for economic…
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In 1870, Illinois' wise heads gathered to draw up a new and better state Constitution. One of the ways it might be better, argued one delegate, was for…
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Nature is a foreign country to those raised in the city. And just as advanced cultures have always sought out foreign countries — especially primitive…
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To most Illinoisans, the phrase "dead zone" suggests the Illinois Statehouse on a weekend, or Main Street after the Wal-Mart opens. But the dead zone that…
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"The love of pleasure [among the young] will not be denied," wrote Jane Addams from Hull House nearly a century ago, "and when it has turned into all…
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Ask Amazon.com to list all the books on leadership and there will be 170,000 choices. This suggests that interest in the mystery of leadership is general,…
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Democratic governors came back to Illinois — why not cougars? Officially, Illinois has no wild cougars; the cougar is not listed as an endangered species…
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Twenty-two years ago, critic and teacher Robert Bray asked an interesting question in his book, Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois. “The…
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Farming is as fickle a calling as politics, and every farmer expects a bad year now and then. But 2001 was the fifth in a string of bad years. In April, a…