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Day Circulation& marketingmanager; CharleneLambert Assistanttothepublisher: QuincyGrimes Businessmanager: ChrisRyan Statehousebureauchief: AaronChambers Projectseditor MaureenF. McKinney Associateeditor: BeverleyScobell Contributingeditor: RoddWhelpley Artdirector: DianaNelson Columnists: RobertDavis Nothing like the adrenaline MadeleineDoubek PatrickE. Gauen rush of a hard-fought campaign CharlesN. WheelerIII Graduateassistant: RyanReeves Editorialassistant: DehiEdmund by Peggy Boyer Long The 2002 primary season should in ourJanuary issue, to introduce the margins of those plus and minustally be in full swingwhen this magazine candidates in the statewide, legislative sheets organized block by block, in the reaches yourmailbox. and congressional races. stop-the-heart, down-to-the-wirevoter By late last month, in the days before But let's face it. They're only part pull on Election Day. Not fornothing we sent our February edition to the of the story. There's nothingquite like do strategists warn novice campaigners printer, two of the Republicans who the adrenaline rush that goes with a that electionscan be, and have been, want to be governor had displaced the hard-fought Illinois-stylecampaign. won or lost by as littleas onevote per hard-hit auto industry'szero percent Even forthose who are merely precinct. financing p—itches with televised ads of watching. We have written in this magazine, their own counter-punching one I'll admit it. I like the high drama, too, that "career"motivations drive another's positions on abortion. And and the high jinks, of those duelingTV much of Illinois' political culture. In cheerful, but no-nonsense phone bank ads. I admire the energy of phone Springfield, and some portions of volunteers wereinterruptingdinners to bankers and door knockers, the kind Chicago, it's hard tomiss thevalidity of ask whetherthe name ofone of the of folks who have enough strength in this notion. But that doesn't entirely Democratswho wants to be governor theirconvictions to interrupt regular explain the homemakerwhocan be rings a bell. programming, to let ourdinners grow counted on to host candidate coffees, What gives? Illinois voterswon't go cold. the student who stays up all night to thepolls to choose their party And I have even encouraged the planningvoterforums, the guy who nominees forexecutive and legislative intrusive attentions of the "push" displays tacky billboard-size posters on posts until March 19. But then. pollster, especially when the candidate his otherwise perfect lawn. Election Day is really the icingon the whocovertlycommissioned the call And it doesn't explain theenduring cake. It's theselast weeks leadingup to has had an especially nasty "negative" attraction of political paraphernalia. the balloting that lend Illinois politics to overcome. Not really. My own collection of itsdistinctive flavor. One election, I was thrilled to get a political buttons, forinstance, numbers And I, forone, am not complaining. call from former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon, somewhere around a hundred, not Some might rightly argue there are far who took the time to remind me to vote countingduplicates. Most ofthe too many elections, and way too much and recommend whom I might vote for. candidates they promoteare longdead, politicking in this state. But that'sa Sure, he had recorded the call earlier, orwell beyond anyone's aspirations decidedly narrow view of the matter. but who couldcut offa Paul Simon, to the public payroll. Yet each still As forthe alternative, where would be even an electronic one? I listened radiates the hopes ofa moment in time. the fun in that? politely, thanked him, then hung up. That's what it'sabout, too. A focused and informed electorate is To those who remind us that Everything the critics say about crucial, of course. No one here would elections have become big business, I political campaignsmaywell betrue. argue otherwise. Candidatesmatter. counterthat, forthe most part, local And yet, elections are still about the Ideas have consequences. That's why and state campaigns are still waged hopes, andyes, the aspirations of our we've gone to such lengths, in this and close to the ground. They are run in the moment in time. 4 LI February 2002 IllinoisIssues http://illinoisissues.uis.edu Issues Illinois A publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield February 2002 Volume XXVIIL No. 2 Emergency landing,page 24 Politicalkaleidoscope,page 16 Squeezeplay,page 21 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 16 Political kaleidoscope byAaron Chambers Editor's Notebook Thenewlegislativemap reflectsshifts in Illinois' by PeggyBoyerLong population, hut Democratshope they'vealso crafted apartisan realignment in thestate Senate. State ofthe State byAaron Chambers 21 Squeeze play bvKurtErickson Changes at the Capitol Southern Illinois wasforcedtogive themost groundon thenewcongressionalmap. Asaresult, 8 Briefly votersin thatregion willfaceahigh-profileshowdown between two incumbent U.S. representatives. 34 People 24 Emergency landing byStephanieZimmermann Terrorism criticallydamagedanalreadycrippledairline industry. ThiscrucialsectorofIllinois'economy willlift 36 Letters offagain, butflightconditions won'tbe thesame. 37 A View from Metro East Spotlight by Patrick E. Gauen 28 Lucky numbers? byTimLandis No dog in thestatewidehunt Businesshaspickedupat theIllinoisLottery. Can it last?Nothingisasurebet in thecompetitivegamingindustry. 38 Politics by Charles X. WheelerIII Spotlight One-party racesafterremap 3 1 What's the big secret? byBillKnight Illinois requiresitslawmakers to reveallessabout their economic interests thanmoststates. Credits:ArtdirectorDianaNelsondesignedthismonth'scover. 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To some, Weaver's departure from the General Assembly after 34years probably seems unthinkable. He's retiring at theend of thisyear, along with many other seasoned legislative colleagues. In fact, 24 lawmakers are not runningagain for the legislature; amongthem are nine senators and 15 representatives. Some will be edged out by a newlegislative map, ofcourse. But Change nothing new Weaver's decision to leave was is personal. "I'm 76 years old. It takes a in the Illinois legislature lot ofenergy, and sometimesthat leaves you at this age. Youdon't seem to get as much accomplished in 24 by Aaron Chambers hours as you used to." Yet, as Senate majority leader, Weaver is decidedly at the top of his Stanley Weaver has seen plenty game. He's right-hand man to Senate over the course of a long political To some, Stanley Weaver's President James "Pate"Philip, that career. chamber's GOP leader. As Philip's When this Republican arrived in the departurefrom the General eyes and ears, hechairs the Senate General Assembly in 1969, some Assembly after 34 years Rules Committee, which screens all 400,000 youngpeople were preparing legislation in thechamber. tojoin Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cockerand probably seems unthinkable. But he'll be missed for other JanisJoplin at a three-dayconcert on reasons, aswell. The formermortician a farm in upstate New York. And Neil He's retiring at the end managed to provide a calmingvoice Armstrongwas training to land on of this year, along with forhis GOPcolleagues. "Sen. Weaver the moon. is the one memberwho repeatedly Closer to home, a new governor, many other seasoned reminds us that the state Senate Republican Richard Ogilvie, was busy legislafive colleagues. should be a gentleman's or gentle- devisinga revolution in state finance, woman'schamber, and his loss could including Illinois* first income tax, a affect the overall temperament ofthe Bureau of the Budget overseen by his Vietnam War ended the yearafter Senate," says Sen. Kirk Dillard, a office and annual budget-making with that. Hinsdale Republican. the legislature. And Illinois politics changed This could be a crucial political By theclose of Weaver's single forever. In 1976, Chicago Mayor moment for that chamber. After term in the House, Illinoisans had Richard J. Daley died of a heart nearly a decade in the majority, the adopted a new Constitution that attack, bringing to a close an era of Senate Republicans will be fighting realigned the powers of state and Democratic Machine control ofthe to retain theirpartisan edge. The local governments. Municipalities like legislature. Fouryears later, the Democrats won the right to draw the Urbana, where Weaver had served so-called "Cutback Amendment"to map, and they did that with aneye as mayor for 12 years, were given the state Constitution reduced the toward benefiting their party. The authority to make decisions outside size of the House by a third, ending GOP faces an uncertain election year. the scope of powers enumerated in the careers ofmany independent- One thing is certain. The Senate statute. Previously, those towns minded lawmakers and boosting the Republican caucus will lose a good needed legislative approvaljust to powerof the leadership. deal ofexperience next year. change thecolorofthe lights on their "All change is not good but all Besides Weaver, two other key emergency vehicles. change is not bad,"Weaver says. "I members of Philip's leadership team The years following Weaver's move think thework product has improved. will leave the legislature, as well as to the Senate were no less dramatic. "Ofcourse, the budget has gone the Republican chair of the Senate U.S. troops pulled out of Vietnam in way up, too. We've taken on more Judiciary Committee, one ofthe 1973, President Richard Nixon responsibility forvarious programs chamber's most prestigious. resigned the followingyear and the that used to be handled at the local Sen. Walter Dudycz of Chicago and 6 _J February2002 IllinoisIssues http://illinoisissues.uis.edu Sen. John Maitland of Bloomington, indispensable down there." both assistant majority leaders, are Dudycz's constituency has been the retiring. Sen. Carl Hawkinson of state's police officers and firefighters. Galesburg, the committee chair, is Tom Ryder, a Jerseyville The former Chicago police detective running for lieutenant governor. has gone to bat forthem sincejoining Republican and House Still, change is part of the process in the Senate in 1985, helping them at the General Assembly. "The rest of us deputy minority leader, one point to win the right to bargain are going to have to step up to the plate collectively. a lot more in terms of those who will already has taken a Dudycz also plays a unique role as assume leadership posts and who will position with the Illinois the only GOP senator from Chicago, a become more-seniormembers," says Democratic stronghold. At work in the Sen. David Sullivan, a Park Ridge Community College Board. legislature, he helped bridge the divide Republican and one of the caucus' between Democrats from that city and rising stars. "We're going to have to do Republicans from the suburbs and more for thecaucus." more significant reforms in the law, downstate. That hasn't always been Wh—ile they aren't out the door including the Juvenile Justice Reform easy. "Many times I was viewed by the yet —there's almost a year left in their Act, which provides tougher sanctions Republicans as one ofthe Chicagoans. terms these Republicans are looking and increases the rolecommunities and many times I was viewed by the forward to the future and reflecting on play in the court system. He also Democrats as one of the Republicans. their time at the Capitol. Each brought sponsored legislation to provide more So 1 was in no-man's-land,"he says. expertise to the table, and developed money for death penalty trials, an "The void will be that the city of strong relationships with particular effort to alleviate the disparate funding Chicago will not have a voice in the constituent bases. in thosecases. Senate Republican caucus." ForWeaver, it's been the University "He practices law and understands But Dudycz says he's tired of of Illinois. His district encompasses the very real and practical effects that gruellingcampaigns. He has been the university'smain campus; he's our legislation has on the practice of a constant target of Democratic regarded as the school's champion in law, for lawyers in this state and also contenders and always had to fight the legislature and iscredited with for individuals who are part and parcel hard to keep his seat. With the new helping secure state funds time and in thecriminaljustice system and the map, Dudycz would have had to decide again. civiljustice system on a daily basis," whether to run this yearagainst Sen. For Maitland, it's been agriculture. says Sen. Ed Petka, a Plainfield James DeLeo, a Chicago Democrat, or Before he suffered a stroke two years Republican and former Will County Sullivan, the Park Ridge Republican. ago, prompting a decision to retire, he state's attorney. "Experience like that is And if he beat Sullivan. Dudycz would was a grain farmer. He has worked for very difficult to replace." have had to move to that nearby farmers in the Senate since 1979. In Jim Covington, a lobbyist forthe district to run for re-election. 1999, forexample, he engineered Illinois State Bar Association and a Meanwhile, the House Republican legislation designed to put teeth into former Senate Republican lawyerwho caucus is losing some of its veteran the Livestock Management Facilities staffed the Judiciary Committee under leadership, too. Tom Ryder of Act. the state law that regulates large Hawkinson, agrees. "It's going to Jerseyville, who was a deputy minority livestock operations. Along with the mean a fairly sizable difference at first leader, already has taken a position loss of Sen. Duane Noland, a Blue because Hawkinson was a strong with the Illinois Community College Mound Republican and farmer who chairman in that he really read all the Board. He had spent nearly 20 years is leaving the Senate, Maitland's bills and the analysis forthe bills developingexpertise on state budgets. departure is measured as a huge loss before every committee hearing,"he But, again, change is nothing new for that constituency. says. "And the new chairman orchair- for the legislature, especially aftera "We have so few farmers in the woman may be a little more hands remap. The General Assembly will General Assembly that I for one off." adjust, as will those who are leaving. anyway hate to seeany of them leave," Hawkinson isn't worried about the As Dudycz, the former detective, says Larry Quandt, president of the committee, though. He says there are puts it: "Many of my colleagues get Illinois Farmers Union. plenty of quality people capable of into trouble when they believe that For Hawkinson, the Judiciary performing its work, whether the 'representative' or 'senator' has Committee chair, it's been criminal and committee is led by a Republican, or a transformed them into a different civil law. Beforejoining the Senate in Democrat such as Sen. John Cullerton person. I've always said that thejob of 1987, he served as Knox County state's of Chicago, the committee's minority legislator is a title that we all hold attorney for fouryears. He continued spokesman. temporarily. Some of us hold it much in private practice formuch of his "I think the committee will continue longerthan others, but this is some- tenure in the legislature. And while to do the good work that it does," thing that belongs to the people." there, he spearheaded some of the Hawkinson says. 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