News

Illinois Issues wins national journalism honors

Features

The pension chasm
analysis by Charles N. Wheeler III
Analysts project state retirement systems will need $131 billion to cover benefits, but there’s only $46 billion in the bank




About Rich Miller
article and photograph by Kevin McDermott
His Capitol Fax newsletter came long before blogs and yet includes analysis, opinion and even advice for political types



Illinois’ Muslims
article and photograph by Susan Hogan/Albach
The population of Islam followers here has grown substantially

Also in the February issue...

The rise of science in politics by Beverly Scobell
Nearly all of the nation’s major problems have science-based solutions, and politicians have moved from ideology to facts for policymaking.

Prisoner count by Jessica Pupovac
Should U.S. Census tabulations include those incarcerated in the community? Voting rights activists are among those who don’t think so.

News

The federal case against Rod Blagojevich, five others

The 75-page federal indictment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and five members of his inner circle details an extensive and long-term scheme that allegedly began in 2002, before Blagojevich took his oath of office in January 2003.

• News release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District
• Superseding indictment (pdf) and Fact sheet (pdf)

Past Blagojevich coverage

Rod Blagojevich’s indictment and arrest have recently made the former Illinois governor a household name across the nation, but Illinois Issues has been writing about him since he first ran for the state’s highest office in 2002.

Here are links to Illinois Issues articles, blog posts and an excerpt from Center Publications’ book, The Illinois Governors: Mostly Good and Competent, chronicling the rise and fall of this controversial public figure from his beginnings on the statewide stage to the present.