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December 2001 $3.95 A publication ofthe University ofIllinois atSpringfield Art reflects the landscape H and the people PBC PUBLICTVSTATIONS WEIU Charleston WILL Champaign Public Broadcasting WMEC/WQEC/WSEC Cooperative OfIllinois Macomb, Quincy Jacksonville/Springfield WQPT Moline WSIU Carbondale WTVP Peoria WUSI Olney WYCC Harness the power Chicago ofpublic broadcasting PUBLICRADIO STATIONS across Illinois... WBEZFM Chicago WCBUFM Peoria Chicago and the suburbs WDCB FM GlenEllyn Rockford to Carbondale WGLTFM Charleston to Quincy Normal WILLAM Urbana WIUM/WIUWFM Macomb, Warsaw WNIJFM DeKalb, Rockford, Get the undivided attention of the most influential, Sterling, LaSalle, Freeport educated, and affluent citizens in Illinois along WNIU FM with the top business decision makers. 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IllinoisAsso'-iaticnof intriguing because he's among the metowritethreeyearsago(see Decem- miliumE.Lowry. vicepresidentforHuman top Lincoln scholars in the United ber 1998)inthisspacethat toomuch of RCaetshoeurricneesaT.ndMaAdemiAnritshturratFioounn,daTtihoenJ,ohChnicD.agao.nd States. He believes one mark of what wesawin 1998wasmisleading, RobertaLynch,deputydirector,American FederationofState. CountyandMunicipal Lincoln's greatness was his insistence nastyorirrelevant. Employees, Chicago. on takingthehigh road in his So if you start seeing adsyou M.CVoeurnotnyi.caLynch,chiefdeputyassessor. Cook speeches. detest, think of Lincoln and JeffMays,president,IllinoisBusinessRoundlahle, Chicago. Lincoln's approach, Paludan says, Paludan; rememberthatit could be DawnClarkNetsch,professoroflawemeritus. provides a sharp contrast to the different. Itreallycould. And thinkof Northwestern UniversitySchoolofLaw, Chicago. TaylorPensoneau,president,IllinoisCoal incivility of muchoftoday's public theiradmonitionthatcandidateswho Association,Springfield. debate. Paludan spokeeloquently on talkdowntousdon'trespectus. They BetRseylaAt.ioPnlsa.nkC,hipcraignoc.ipal, BetsyPlankPublic thesubject after being invested reallydon't. PhilipJ. Rock,attorney, Rock, Fusco,andGarvey, November 7 at the University of ChuLctdk..ScChhoilcza,gmo.ayorofQuincy. Illinois at Springfield as the first Diana Nelson will become the NinaShepherd,highereducationgovernance consultant. Winnetka. scholartohold The Naomi B. Lynn new chair of the Illinois Issues PaulSimon,director, ThePublicPolicyInstitute. Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Board in January. She'sa former WiSmouWtihcewrenl.Ildleianoni.sCUonlilveegresiotfyBautsCianrebsosndale. Studies. state representative who is now the Administration. UniversityofIllinoisatChicago. His commentary about the public affairs director of the Union EdWojcicki,exofficio. nobility of civil discourse is timely. League Club of Chicago. She As he was—speaking, it's possible — follows former Senate President no, likely that Illinoiscampaign Philip Rock, who served us well as strategists alreadywereplanning the chair for mostofthe 1990s. I'm MEMBERSEMERITUS television ads and brochures forthe delighted our board memberselected (yearsservedonboardinparentheses) Marchprimarythat viciouslyattack Nelson as chair at the November JamesL. Fletcher(1983-2000), WilliamC. Harris(1986-93). DavidKenney(1978-90).Louis and distort their opponents' meeting. She'senthusiastic and H. Masotli(1978-92),JamesT. Otis(1975-94), positions and characters. thoughtful and has raised the Union DavidJ. Paulus(1988-94). CarlShier(1978-87). It'sthe Illinoisway. FormerGov. League's visibility in recent years. JamesThompsonremindedtheCivic My guess is that she'll do the same Federation beforethe 1998elections for our board. www.uis.edu/~ilissues IllinoisIssues December2001 J 3 NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES BUSINESS REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS MAIL PERMIT NO. 1901 SPRINGFIELD, IL POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE Illinois Issues UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD PO Box 9243 1 Springfield, IL 62794-9980 I,II..mI.II...II.Im.I,,II,I,,I.ImImI.IImmII..I r j CJ PUBLICRADIO STATIONS across Illinois... WBEZFM Chicago WCBUFM Peoria Chicago and the suburbs WDCB FM Glen Ellyn Rockford to Carbondale WGLTFM Charleston to Quincy Normal WILLAM Urbana WIUM/WIUWFM Macomb, Warsaw WNIJ FM DeKalb, Rockford, Get the undivided attention of the most influential, Sterling, LaSalle, Freeport educated, and affluent citizens in Illinois along WNIU FM with the top business decision makers. Rockford, Dekalb WSIE FM Tap into public radio and television stations around Edwardsville the state and make your underwriting dollars WUIS/WIPA FM work for you with a single phone call to the Public Broadcasting Cooperative of Illinois at Springfield, Pittsfield 630/585-7596 Visit our new web site at WWW.PBCIoillilie.org CONVERSATION WITH THE PUBLISHER THE BOARD U/cr^^ ACTING CHAIR cij, DianaNelson,directorojpublicaffairs, Union LeagueofChicago. MEMBERS MarySueBarrett,president. MetropolitanPlanning Council. Chicago. JamesM.Banoretz.professoremeritusofpublic administration, NorthernIllinoisUniversity, DeKalb. RobertJ.Christie, ritepresident,government relations.NorthwesternMemorialHospital. Chicago. campaigns ErnestL.Cowles. interimexecutivedirector. Civility in InstituteforPublicAffairs. Universityoj Illinois atSpringfield. may be tested here again DonDefoe,manager,stalegovernmentalaffairs. CaterpillarInc..Springfield. DarcyDavidsmeyer,director,slategovernment relations. MotorolaInc..Schaumburg. JimEdgar,seniorfellow.InstituteofGovernment by Ed Wojcicki andPublicAffairs. UniversityofIllinois. SharonGistGilliam, executivevicepresident. UnisonConsultingGroupInc.. Chicago. ReyGonzalez,assistantvicepresident. Diversity Phillip Paludan says he can tell that Americanpoliticshavealwaysbeen SamInuietilatKi.veGs,orMec,Dpornofaelsds'osreComrepr.i,tuOsaokfpBorloiotki.cal whenpublicofficials don't respect "raw,cruel andpersonal."It'samessage science, UniversityofIllinoisul Urbana- citizens. Wecan tell what others welovetohate,evenaswebraceforthe DorCihsaBm.paHiolglne.h.professoriallecturer, University think of us, he says, by the way they nextroundofdistastefulads. ofChicago. talk to us. Too many officials talk Severaltimesinrecentyears, Ihave JReotbteartNoJr.rKilsaJuosn,epsr,eastitdoernnteya,ndChCiEcaOg.o.OralHealth down to us,which suggests they asked readerstosendmecopiesof America. Chicago. JackH.Knott,director.InstituteofGovernment don't respect our ability to think. offensivecampaignmessages.Therehas andPublicAffairs, UniversityofIllinois. Paludan's perspective isespecially notbeenashortage, andthat'swhat led JoaSnchWo.oLleBvoya,rdpsa.stWpirnenseidleknat.,IllinoisAssociationof intriguing because he's among the metowritethreeyearsago(see Decem- WilliamE.Lowry. vicepresidentforHuman top Lincoln scholars in the United ber 1998)inthisspacethattoomuchof RCeastohuerrcineesaT.ndMaAdcmAinritshturratFioounn.daTtihoenJ.ohChnicD.agaon.d States. He believes one mark of whatwesawin 1998 wasmisleading, RobertaLynch,deputydirector,American FederationofStale. CountyandMunicipal Lincoln's greatness was his insistence nastyorirrelevant. Employees, Chicago. on takingthehigh road in his So if you start seeing adsyou M.CVoeurnotn)i.caLynch,chiefdeputyassessor. Cook speeches. detest, think of Lincoln and JeffMays,president,IllinoisBusinessRoundtablc. Chicago. Lincoln's approach, Paludan says, Paludan; rememberthat it could be DawnClarkNetsch.professoroflawemeritus. provides a sharp contrast to the different. It reallycould. Andthinkof Northwestern UniversitySchoolofLaw, Chicago. TaylorPensoneau,president,IllinoisCoal incivility of muchoftoday's public theiradmonitionthatcandidateswho Association,Springfield. debate. Paludan spokeeloquently on talkdowntousdon'trespect us.They BetRseylaAt.ioPnlsa.nkC,hipcraignoc.ipal,BetsyPlankPublic thesubject after being invested reallydon't. PhilipJ. Rock,attorney. Rock,Fuscu.andGarvcy. November 7 at the University of ChuLctdk..ScChhoilcza.gom.ayorof Quincy. Illinois at Springfield as the first Diana Nelson will become the NinaShepherd,highereducationgovernance scholartohold The Naomi B. Lynn new chair of the Illinois Issues PauclonSsiumlotna,nld.irWeictnonre.lkTah.ePublicPolicyInstitute, Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Board in January. She'sa former WiSmouWtiheewrenl.Ildleianoni.sCUonlilveegresiotfyBautsCianrebsosndale. Studies. state representative who is now the Administration UniversityoflllmcisatChicago. His commentary about the public affairs director of the Union EdWojcicki.exofficio. nobility of civil discourse is timely. League Club of Chicago. She As he was—speaking, it's possible — follows former Senate President no, likely that Illinoiscampaign Philip Rock, who served us well as strategists alreadywereplanning the chair for mostofthe 1990s. I'm MEMBERSEMERITUS television ads and brochures forthe delighted our board memberselected (yearsservedonboardinparentheses) Marchprimarythat viciouslyattack Nelson as chair at the November JamesL. Fletcher(1983-2000), WilliamC. Harris(1986-93). DavidKennev(1978-90). Louts and distort their opponents' meeting. She'senthusiastic and H. Masotti(1978-92),JamesT. Otis(1975-94), positions and characters. thoughtful and has raised the Union DavidJ. Paulus(1988-94). CarlShier(1978-87). It'stheIllinoisway. FormerGov. League's visibility in recent years. JamesThompsonremindedtheCivic My guess is that she'll do the same Federationbeforethe 1998elections for our board. _l www.uis.edu/~ilissues IllinoisIssues December2001 3 EDITORS NOTEBOOK STAFF Publisher: EdwardR.Wojcicki n^*i&^a*~L*-vv Editor: PeggyBoyerLong Editoremeritus: WilliamL. Day Circulation& marketingmanager: CharleneLambert Assistanttothepublisher: QuincyGrimes Businessmanager: ChrisRyan Statehousebureauchief: AaronChambers Projectseditor: MaureenF. McKinney Associateeditor: BeverleyScobell Contributingeditor: RoddWhelpley Artdirector: DianaNelson An Illinois photographer captures Columnists: RMoabdeerlteiDnaeviDsoubek PatrickE. Gauen the beauty of the Midwest's landscape CharlesN. WheelerIII Graduateassistant: RyanReeves Editorialassistant: DebiEdmund by Peggy Boyer Long Ask central Illinois photographer what signals they get to understand issued this year. All three were Larry Kanfer what he can the land." published by the University of Illinois possibly find in this flat and seemingly He's philosophically suited to the Press. empty landscape and, like any true task. "Living in the middle of a city, Some 1,500 of his photographic Midwesterner, he'll talk about the there's a whole element that you're images also can be seen on his home history of towns, the cycle of seasons missing in life,"he says. page at www.kanfer.com. These images and, ofcourse, the significance of "I personally need a sense of the sun are searchable by key word. weather. moving throughout the seasons, from This is a substantial body of work In awe-inspiring detail. The first rising in the northeast to rising in the for someone who said he would give thaw?That's usually January 20 or so, southeast. There's the timeline, the photography a year to see how it when a bit of black earth shows progression that is really important." went. That was in 1978, after Kanfer through the snow and there's a slight As it happens, Kanferwas born received his degree in architecture scent of spring in the air. Never in the Midwest, in St. Louis, but he from the University of Illinois at mind that February will then seem as spent his early years in the Pacific Urbana-Champaign. unending as the horizon. Spring is a Northwest, which has an obvious, Architecture, it turns out, provided certainty. So are summer and fall. what he calls "vertical,"beauty. After good technical and conceptual train- Kanfer, whose photographs appear high school, he moved to Illinois, ing for the photographic arts. That's on the coverand on pages 18 through where he discovered a "chronological" because, Kanfer says, an architect has 25, makes his living by paying beauty that must be experienced over to be able to think through what he's attention to this kind of detail. And, time. trying to communicate. When he though not a life-long Midwesterner, That insight, it turns out, is the photographs, he does the same. He he has become a close observer of theme of our sixth annual arts issue. tries to think about getting his point other folks whose livelihoods are From Chicago to the southern tip of across. grounded, over generations, in rural the state, artists hehp us to see in new His vision of the Midwest? towns and farmsteads. ways the landscape and the people of "Optimism. Growth over time. And "The farmers have worked, year in, Illinois. Lucky for us, Kanfer agreed to the fact that we, as a group of year out, every day on the same plot of let us use some of his photographs. Midwesterners and Illinoisans, have land," he says. "They know intimately Kanferowns galleries in Champaign worked together to build this civiliza- what the soil type is, they know the and in Minneapolis, Minn. He has tion. We've got these beautiful little seasons, they know the repetition. put out three books of Midwestern towns that have sprung up, perfectly They can almost sense when a front is landscape photography: Prairiescapes; spaced across the countryside. coming through. And how do they do On Second Glance., and, his most "Where better to see it than here that? Myjob is to try and figure out recent, On Firm Ground, which was where it's flat." 4Q December2001 IllinoisIssues www.uis.edu/~ilissues Illinois Issues — A publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield December 2001 Volume XXVII. No. 12 Mixedmessage,page 14 Historyfrom thebottomup,page30 Artandcommunity,page27 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 3 Conversation 14 Mixed message byDaniel C. Ibck with the Publisher What impression ofthe capitalcitydoesSpringfield byEd Wojcicki want to convey? Officialshaven'taskedthatquestion in decades. Theresultsarealltoo visible. 4 Editor's Notebook byPeggy BoyerLong 18 Imagine Illinois 6 State ofthe State Artreflects the landscapeandthepeople. PhotosbyLarry Kanfer byAaron Chambers 23 Dream deferred bvMaureen F. McKinney Art helps kids cope. A little Illinois towngoesallout to honorapolitician 8 Briefly whopassedthrough, buthasbeenslow to recognize the writers who calledit home. 35 People 27 Art and community bv Curtis Lawrence Anaffordableartistcolonyforhalfa century. 36 Letters Chicago's Wicker Parkneighborhoodison the rise. Butas the rentsgo up. theartistsaremovingout. 37 A View from the Suburbs 30 History from the bottom up bvAaron Chambers byMadeleine Doubek Art andculture abound. Using Chicago asamicrocosm. Studs Terkel hashelpeddefine America, withallitsdivisionsandunions. 38 Politics 34 Guest essay by Charles N. Wheeler III GOP turns topopular culture. Theartofrevitalization byHilatyA. 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Inadditiontouniversitysupportand IssuesisindexedinthePAISBulletinandisavailableelectronicallyonourhomepage:http://illinoisissues(auis.edu.Illinois subscriptionincome, themagazineissupportedbygrants Issues{ISSN0738-9663)ispublishedmonthly,exceptduringthesummerwhenJulyandAugustarecombined.Periodical anddonations. Thecontentsofthemagazinedonot postagepaidatSpringfield,IL.andadditionalmailingoffices.Postmaster:SendaddresschangestoIllinoisIssues.Subscription necessarilyreflecttheviewsoftheuniversityorthedonors. Division,P.O.Box7263.Bensenville.IL60106. www.uis.edu/~ilissues IllinoisIssues December2001 5 STATE OF THE STATE terrorist attacks. They're drawing, painting, sculpting, writingand acting. It's happening in schools, at private art centers and in workshops, such as the oneconducted by WeWrite. Asa result, the kids learn to articulate, and to deal with, their thoughts and feelings. Theydevelop their imaginations. And they learn to communicate witheach other. "In troubling times, artcan be used as a therapy,"says Rhoda Pierce, executivedirector of the IllinoisArts Council. "Sometimes, when something Art helping kids cope tragic happens, children may not be is able to expresstheirfeelings in words, with the September tragedy but they often can alleviate their 1 1 sorrowthrough drawing, through music, through dancing." by Aaron Chambers Elaine Steinerknows all about that. Asassistant principal at Hitch Elementary School on Chicago's north- Buddy the dog split New York City Shelly, afterthey'reevacuated from her west side, she feared herstudents afterthe September 1 1 terrorist apartment. Along the way, Buddy talks weren't sufficiently dealingwith attacks. Hewasscared and ran to with otherdogs, includinga policedog, feelings related to the attacks, and she Springfield forcomfort. about the tasks they perform inthe thought they should begin adialogue. That'show a groupofSpringfield- aftermath. The school gave each of about 350 areachildren first depicted theirfeelings Thetwo end upstayingat a shelter, students a squareofcardboard, and about theattacks. It wasfourdaysafter where Buddy decides hecan help asked them to draw orwriteabout the incident, and thechildren, ages 8 to mattersby playingwithchildren, dis- theirthoughts on the attacks. One 1 1, thought thegolden retrieverwould tractingthem from watchingtelevision, student drew an eagle in tears. Another be betteroff in theirhometown. They and bycomfortingpeople separated drew the World Trade Centertowers weregathered at thecapitalcity'sair- from family. In theend. Buddy ventures with a heart around them. port totalk about theirthoughts, and to totheattacksite, wherehe fetches food Parents sewed the squares together put them into fiction. Theirassignment: and waterforotherdogs searching for with red, white and blue yarn, and the Writea bookthatwould be illustrated victimsin the rubble. school had the quilt laminated. It's and sold tootherchildren. "The basic message of the story is about 10 feet high and 12 feet wide. "Theearly part of it wasjust being that through everything that's going "I think, unfortunately, children are scared: 'We've got to get away,'"says on, youcan try to help fix the situation not allowed tocommunicate as much Delores Palmer, president of WeWrite by being part ofthis team that's trying as they should be, so I think it's good Corp., the Springfield-based publish- to remedy the whole thing,"says forthemto get the feelings out," ingcompany that ran theworkshop. Jacqueline Goodwin, director of Steinersays. "I don't think people "That in itselfis reflectingthe process creative services at WeWrite. "There listen to the kidsenough. Adultsdon't of coping. You're running." are so many things that youcan do, have time; parents don't have time But thechildren soon moved on. even ifyou're not a fire dogora police a lot of the time because theyare At theirsecond workshop, held about dogor a military dog. Ifyou're a workingandtheydon't sit down a week later, thechildren changed the normal dog, ora child, there are little and talk to theirkids and they don't story line. This time. Buddy returned things that youcan do to help, and that listen to them." to NewYorkafterstayinga year in makesyou feel better." Across town, staffat the Hyde Park Springfield. The story is an extraordinary Art Centerhad thesame idea: Give And duringtheir third and final example of art created by kids working children a forum to vent about the meetingon the book, held about a to copewith griefaftera tragedy; attacks. The South Sidegroupopened month afterthe attacks, thechildren children generally don't create such a itsdoorsforan afternoon and offereda dropped Springfield from the picture. complex product as part ofart therapy. freeworkshoptochildren ages 6to 11. They had Buddy stay in New York, Still, thosechildren are not alone in The kids were asked to take images where he regroups and tries to help theirefforts. from newsmagazines, stuffed with with reliefefforts. Across the state, childrenareusing coverage oftheattacks, and build a Hetravelsthecity with his owner, art to deal with emotions related to the collage. Theywere asked to depict how 6 December2001 IllinoisIssues www.uis.edu/~ilissues they felt about the event, what they talkingand filmingeach other. art therapistand is education coordin- were thinkingand what impressions "It's an ongoingstruggle: 'Should atorat the University Galleries of Illi- theywere left with. they be afraid, should they not be nois State University in Normal. After Next, they performed a similar afraid?'" Kowalczyk says. "But I think the attacks, she says, shewondered exercise on fresh paper. But this time it'sdefinitely helpful to talk about your whetherart teachers in high schools they worked with magazinescovering feelings in situations like this. It's hard around the universitywere pushing eventsnot related to the attacks, such when theadults here were also feeling their students to work out theirfeelings as NationalGeographic, and wereasked afraid orin shock, so it wasa process in class. She made some phonecalls to illustratewhat the world could or that weall went through together." and asked the schools to send over should do to move toward a better And when Traci Stanton showed up whateverart had been produced. future. to teach an improvisation class to She was overwhelmed by the Finally, thechildren were asked to teenagers the Sunday immediately response. One groupof students talk about theirwork. followingthe attacks, shesays she had showed upwith amodel of the Statue "Theycouldn't fully articulatewhat herworkcut out for herin trying to of Liberty, eight feet tall and four feet exactlytheywere feeling, but you motivate the students toact. They were wide, which was plastered with media couldclearly see it in the images,"says exhausted, she says, and felt uncom- images related to the attacks. Eliza Duenow, thecenter'seducation fortable moving through different roles. Anotherstudent producedacigarbox director. "Even iftheywerestumbling "At first, it's almost as if you didn't withanorangeinteriorand strings through sentencesorstuttering, asa want to do it,"she says. "You're afraid wrappedaroundit. "Thestudentmadea confused 7-year-old does, saying, The to laugh, you'reafraid to be funny. You statement,sayingbasicallythatweneed planecrashed, and therewas the fire, felt like you shouldn't be, that maybe hope, thatthestringsrepresentdifferent and Bush wasveryangry PhotographcourtesyojtheH\4eParkArtCenle facetsofwhoweareand and everyonewas scared,' howwecometogetherasa youcould tellwhat was community,"shesays. sticking in them. And then InOctober, Carlson they talked toeach other co-curatedatwo-week about that: 'Oh, I saw exhibitionfeaturing Bush mad too'or 'I saw September 1 1-inspired theplanecrash."' artbystudentsinthe Shesays thecontrast McLeanCountyarea. between the twocollages Theworkwasjuxtaposed wasstartling. Oneofthe by "professional"art inthe children, an 1 1-year-old university'sgalleries,which girl, chose gray, smoke- aregearedtowardadults. colored images forthe And ifadultvisitorstothe firstexercise. In the second exhibitionwerepaying exercise, she used parts attention,shesays, they of bright commercial stoodtolearnsomething advertising, abstractions aboutthemselves. fromart magazines and ThechildrenattheHydeParkArtCentermadeacollagethatexpresses "If you're a person who wilderness shots. theirfeelingsabouttheSeptember11 terroristattacks. chooses to say 'kids are "She said simply that kidsand they don't know this isherart piece, that she liked mak- you should still be sad. You know, is it what they're talkingabout,'you're not ing art because it made her happy, and really fair that I'm laughing when all going to takeit in; you're not goingto that she liked this picture much better," thesepeoplejust lost their lives?" take what they have to say seriously," Duenow says. But in time, she says, the students she says. "But ifyou are an open and Paula Kowalczyk, development rose to the occasion. Improvcan be perceptive adult, you have the oppor- director at Street-Level Youth Media, therapeutic, she says, because students tunity to take in the perspective of a workswith older, more sophisticated areencouraged to be creativewhile person who's in a vulnerable position. youth. But on the afternoon of followingtheir true feelings. Children are really at the mercy of September 1 1, they nevertheless "You don't have to do what yourboss what adults say and do." showed up at the nonprofit media arts says or be happy forthe sake of the As for Buddy thedog. WeWrite, agency, which offers kids accessto company,"she says. "Youcan be upset the publishingcompany that has been technology, in search of an outlet for ina sceneifyouwant to be upset, or funding the project, plans to release theiremotions. Theycame straight youcan be happyifyou want to be the book. War?I'm Scarce/!, early this from school, feelingscared, and happy. You get to pretend, but you month. It looks like Buddy will wanted to talk. So, utilizing the don't have to put that game faceon." spend some time around Springfield center's video cameras, they started Back downstate. Nan Carlson isan afterall. www.uis.edu/~ilissues IllinoisIssues December2001 7 BRIEFLY KarenLynneDealismusicdirectoroftheIllinoisSymphonyOrchestra, whichplaysinSpringfieldamiBloomington-Normal. Play on overseesomeofthe smallercommunity symphonies. "Ifwedo ourjob right, theaudience will establish a familial Smaller symphonies create relationshipwith us."argues Karen Lynne Deal, music strategies for survival directorofthe Illinois Symphony Orchestra, which plays in Springfield and Bloomington-Normal. fmusicbe thefruit oflove, play on,"Shakespeare Strategiesforestablishingthatmusicalfamilyvary, though. * wrote. Symphoniesacrossthestatemight add, Deal, who is relativelynewto the ISO, hasconcentrated on "Ifyouhavethe fundingand audienceto do so." theneed tonurturea youngeraudience. Sheleft a positionas In fact, gettingpeople into concert halls has becomean associateconductorof the Nashville SymphonyOrchestra, all-too-common struggle. which had a budget of $9 million to $10 million, tocome to Nationally, the future ofsymphony orchestras doesn't Springfield, which has a budget ofjust over$1 million. She lookpromising. California's 123-year-old SanJose believes Illinois symphonieswith small budgets like hers Symphony has suspended artisticoperations "until funding might profit fromconsidering Shakespeare'swords, "play is available."The St. Louis Symphonyhas announced that it on,"inanewlight. needs, at present, $69 million to be fiscally secure. Closerto By attractingyoungeraudiences, then keeping them fora home, theChicago Symphony Orchestra hasdiscontinued its lifetime, symphoniescould ensuretheirown future. So Deal local and national radio broadcasts, closed its ECHO music and the ISO are attemptingto attract anatypical audience education centerand posted a $1.3 milliondeficit. into theconcert hall. Thetraditional symphonyfan is In short, the largerorchestras hereand in other regions between theages of40and 60. But Deal has addeda "Sneak- ofthe nation are reeling. That should bethecase, too, forthe ersandJeans Family Matinee Series,"an attempt to include orchestrasoperatingon smaller budgets. But here in Illinois, children. The symphony hopesfamilieswill bemorewilling at least, there's surprisingoptimism amongthosewho to attend if they don't haveto dress orbehave asthey tradi- 8 December2001 IllinoisIssues www.uis.edu/~ilissues