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Will he or won't he? By the time you read this, you're likely to know. But in mid-January, as we get the issue ready for the printer, we don't have that…
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Psssst. Staying informed might be the best way to get even.In this issue, political scientist Brian Gaines suggests Illinoisans could get — maybe, perhaps…
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Those were some of the men who walked into the desert that May in 2001. Twenty-six went in, by some counts. Twelve stumbled back out.They had no way of…
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Let's admit it. This has been one dreary election. Even here at the magazine, where we take the long view, we're feeling out of sorts, a bit off-kilter.…
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A former governor has been sentenced. The current governor is under investigation. And, as we see in this month's issue, a recent poll shows voters aren't…
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A decade after federal welfare reform began to move women with children from welfare to work, activists and scholars are turning a spotlight on the plight…
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My grandmother could kill half a dozen chickens in a matter of minutes. Bessie Revelle Dragoo had the strong arms of an Illinois farm woman, the ample…
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As early as 1932, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis argued states are potential policy innovators. His evocative phrase, "laboratories of…
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Among my memories of the 1970s — filed between images of motorists seething in long gas lines and Iranian militants kidnapping U.S. embassy staff — is the…
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Illinois Issues has logged onto the blogosphere.Bethany Carson, our Statehouse bureau chief, launched the magazine's first online journal, known as a Web…