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As the summer heat sets in, my thoughts drift to baseball. They drift back 13 years, to 1988 when the Illinois legislature adopted a last-minute plan to…
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Audrey McCrimonAn assistant to the secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services, Audrey McCrimon has a variety of responsibilities that make her…
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Conversation with the Publisher: The legislature wraps up while others make case for civics trainingWe weren't alone in predicting that the big issues in this spring's legislative session might be rewriting telecommunications law, doling out education…
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The last time we conducted a formal readership survey, in 1996, some of the results surprised me. I learned that almost half of you have at least a…
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Conversation with the Publisher: Stratton kept serving Illinois; civic engagement project successfulOnce or twice a year I got together with former Gov. William Stratton, who had been on the Illinois Issues Board since 1978. He liked to joke that…
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Legislative checklistThe 92nd General Assembly kicked off the spring session with an ambitious load: 1,523 bills in the Senate and 3,618 bills in the…
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One test of leaders' greatness, says presidential historian Michael Beschloss, is how much they live on in the minds and hearts of future generations.…
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The Auburn Rotary Club disbanded last summer. The few remaining members were getting older and having trouble recruiting younger people. The club folded,…
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It's because of legislative sessions like the one just starting that our founders and the university knew how much our state needs Illinois Issues.The…
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My feeling about this new year differs from the last few, when January 1 meant little more than waking up for another day. I sense more urgency, but maybe…