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Special series
by Illinois Issues

ILLINOIS ISSUES
30TH ANNIVERSARY
Retrospectives
Three decades of public affairs journalism
PART 1: Welfare reform, Tax caps, and Capital punishment
PART 2: Patronage rulings, Cutback Amendment, Judicial subdistricts
PART 3: Energy resources, Water commerce, Economic subsidies
PART 4: Editorial cartoons, Public art, Political fiction, Classic architecture, Web literature

Special projects

The Paul Simon Essay:
The commissioned Paul Simon Essay honors the memory of an Illinois Issues founder. These essays look in new ways at the ethical and moral dimensions of policy questions that were important to Simon. The Joyce Foundation funded the inaugural essay by Political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago.

Civic Virtues
Moral imperatives grounded in religion call us to come to know a good in common we cannot know alone
by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Burning question
How to help the poor?The answer might be found in the stories and the voices of Illinoisans who themselves live in the poorest communities in the state
Essay and photographs by John Wesley Fountain

Hall of Fame: Samuel K. Gove Illinois Legislative Internship

Hall of Fame: Bill Miller Public Affairs Reporting

The Illinois Civic Engagement Project
It is a research and citizen action project:
a research project to measure and describe the level and forms of civic engagement of the citizens of Illinois, and a citizen action project to help Illinoisans learn how to enhance and sustain civic engagement for the betterment of our communities. See report for results.

The Illinois Campaign Finance Project

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