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Corrupt Illinois
Author | : Thomas J. Gradel,Dick Simpson |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780252097034 |
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Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take aim at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers through a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to illustrate how generations of chicanery have undermined faith in, and hope for, honest government. From there, they lay out how to implement institutional reforms that provide accountability and eradicate the favoritism, sweetheart deals, and conflicts of interest corroding our civic life. Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to transform our politics from a pay-to-play–driven marketplace into what it should be: an instrument of public good.
Illinois in the War of 1812
Author | : Gillum Ferguson |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252094552 |
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Russell P. Strange "Book of the Year" Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2012. On the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. Split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the U.S. border with Canada, embracing the current states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and a part of Michigan. The extreme southern part of the region was rich in timber, but the dominant feature of the landscape was the vast tall grass prairie that stretched without major interruption from Lake Michigan for more than three hundred miles to the south. The territory was largely inhabited by Indians: Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and others. By 1812, however, pioneer farmers had gathered in the wooded fringes around prime agricultural land, looking out over the prairies with longing and trepidation. Six years later, a populous Illinois was confident enough to seek and receive admission as a state in the Union. What had intervened was the War of 1812, in which white settlers faced both Indians resistant to their encroachments and British forces poised to seize control of the upper Mississippi and Great Lakes. The war ultimately broke the power and morale of the Indian tribes and deprived them of the support of their ally, Great Britain. Sometimes led by skillful tacticians, at other times by blundering looters who got lost in the tall grass, the combatants showed each other little mercy. Until and even after the war was concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, there were massacres by both sides, laying the groundwork for later betrayal of friendly and hostile tribes alike and for ultimate expulsion of the Indians from the new state of Illinois. In this engrossing new history, published upon the war's bicentennial, Gillum Ferguson underlines the crucial importance of the War of 1812 in the development of Illinois as a state. The history of Illinois in the War of 1812 has never before been told with so much attention to the personalities who fought it, the events that defined it, and its lasting consequences. Endorsed by the Illinois Society of the War of 1812 and the Illinois War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.
The Illinois Teacher
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105030973395 |
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Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society for the Year
Author | : Illinois State Horticultural Society |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Horticulture |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112027938874 |
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Minutes of the Twenty second Anniversary of the Illinois Baptist Education Society Held in Connection with the Commencement of Shurtleff College in Upper Alton June 24 1857
Author | : Illinois Baptist Education Society |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059171101343609 |
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A Consumer s Guide to Proceedings Before the Illinois Commerce Commission
Author | : Illinois Office of Consumer Services |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Election utilities |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112122593301 |
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Transactions of the Illinois Society for Child Study
Author | : Illinois Society for Child Study |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Child development |
ISBN | : UOM:39015076661324 |
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Condition of the Mussel Fishery of the Illinois River in 1912
Author | : Ernest Danglade |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Freshwater mussels |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D012215735 |
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