Excerpt from State and Local Government in Illinois: A Bibliography This bibliography has been designed to aid those persons who desire knowledge of problems, achievements, and processes of state and local government in Illinois, other than that embodied in statutes, court decisions, and reports of administrative agencies. The emphasis is on materials dealing at length with specific issues of state-wide significance. Social, economic, and political histories and similar studies have been added as necessary background but kept to a short list of outstanding works. Studies pertaining to a single unit of local government have generally been omitted, although exceptions have been made particularly in the case of the several significant studies of Chicago government and problems. Materials for inclusion in this bibliography are largely restricted to information on the practice of government in Illinois under the Constitution of 1870 up to September 1953 and only a few items relating to the period before 1900 have been listed. Although there is justification for including materials even back to the territorial laws, available resources dictated a limitation to more current materials. A cross reference system in the table of contents has been de vised to aid the user of this bibliography in locating works that touch on one or more subject matters. This alternative subject list ing should be searched by those persons desirous of making an exhaustive study of a particular problem area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.