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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 47, No. 1 (Spring 2005)

Raymond Greene, Editor

Contents
Cornebise, Michael.  "Belizean Population and Migration Trends: Examining the Supply Side of Chicago's Belizean Migration Story."

Book Reviews

Twelve Millennia: Archeology of the Upper Mississippi Valley.  By James F. Marran.

Floating Islands: A Global Bibliography, with an Edition and Translation of G.C. Muz's "Exercitatio academica de insulis natantibus."  By Jennie Marie Johnson.

The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-state Tornado of 1925.  By Stanley A. Changnon.

Here's the Deal: The Making and Breaking of a Great American City.  By Charles Fuller.

Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration.  By Erik S. Gellman.

Climate Atlas of Illinois.  By Dagmar Budikova.

Lewis and Clark in the Illinois Country: The Little-Told Story.  By Fred Willman.

Kaskaskia Under the French Regime.  By B. Pierre Lebeau.

Stormy Weather - A Forecast of Increased Storms.  Worsening Weather, and Detailed Explanations of the Causes.  By Ann Doolen.

Tributes

An Essay on Editor Emerita Jill Freund Thomas.  By Michael D. Sublett.

In Memoriam:  Karl A. Robert, 1935-2005.  By Paul F. Ries.

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 47, No. 2 (Fall 2005)

Raymond Greene, Editor

Contents
Sublett, Michael D.  "Phi Beta Kappas in Illinois."

Booth, Arlyn.  "What's New in Maps at the Illinois State Library."

Book Reviews

The Little Road: The Story of the Macomb Industry and Littleton Railway.  By Thomas Van Heuklon.

Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway.  By Greg Hall.

Healing Waters: Missouri's Historic Mineral Springs and Spas.  By Keith A. Sculle.

Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River: Places, Landscapes and Regional Identity after 1854.  By William D. Walters, Jr.

Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Perspective.  By Robert M. Ashley.

Et Cetera

A Note from the Editor

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society
Vol. 48, No. 1 (Spring 2006)

Michael Cornebise, Guest Editor

Contents
Cidell, Julie.  "O'Hare International Airport and Land Use Incompatibility."

Cornebise, Michael and Ola Johannson.  "Sweden vs. Multiculturalism: The Making of Neighborhood Identity in Chicago's Andersonville."

Book Reviews

The Chicago River: An Illustrated History and Guide to the River and Its Waterways.  By James Marran. 

Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent.  By Betty Smith.

The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History.  By Michael Sublett.

Necrology

In Memoriam Albert J. Larson.  By David Schein.

Illinois In Maps

Districts of the 110th United States Congress.  By Christopher J. Sutton.

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 48, No. 2 (Fall 2006)

Ola Johansson, Guest Editor

Contents
Gripshover, Margaret and Thomas Bell.  "Dread All About It: Suicide as Portrayed in the Chicago Tribune 1852-1872."

Mir, Debby.  "What Drives Service Micro-Enterprises Environmental Behavior in Chicago?"

Book Reviews

Chicago: A Geography of the City and its Region.  By W. Brett Anderson.

City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919.  By Charles Fuller.

Chicago's Geographies: Metropolis for the 21st Century.  By Ola Johansson.

Near West Side Stories: Struggles for Community in Chicago's Maxwell Street Neighborhood.  By Peter Alter.

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 49, No. 1 (Spring 2007)  50th Anniversary Special Edition Part I

Michael Cornebise, Editor

Contents
Introduction

Michael Cornebise, Editor of the Bulletin

Odenthal, William.  "Grain Shipments on the Illinois Waterway."  (Originally published February 1957, Vo. 1, No. 2)

Powers, William.  "Physiography of Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin."  (Originally published December 1960, Vol. 2, No. 2)

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 49, No. 2 (Fall 2007) 50th Anniversary Special Edition Part II

Michael Cornebise, Editor

Contents
Bartlett, David, Edwin Draine and Siim Soot.  "A Reexamination of Urban Economic Rent: the Chicago Case."  (Originally published December 1975, Vol. 17, No. 2)

Piety, James.  "Looking Backward: When Jefferson Township was a Suburb."  (Originally published Fall 1987, Vo. 29, No. 2)

Sublett, Michael.  "Efforts to Abolish Illinois Townships."  (Originally published Spring 1997, Vol. 39, No. 1)

Minutes of the IGS Annual Meeting in Charleston

Executive Council Meeting: April 12, 2007

Business Meeting: April 14, 2007

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring 2008)

Michael Cornebise, Editor

Contents
Schultz, Dale E.  "Red Counties in a Blue State: A Geographical Analysis of the 2004 U.S. Senate Elections in Illinois."

Roberts, Nina E.  "Geographic Literacy at the Freshmen and Senior Levels: A Survey of Students at Northeastern Illinois University."

Book Reviews

Folksongs of Illinois.  By Charles F. Gritzner.

Landscape and Images.  By Nora Pat Small.

The Sangamon River: A Sense of Place. By Michael D. Sublett.

Cahokia: A Landscape Perspective.  By Robert M. Ashley.

Necrology

In Memoriam: Karla (Young) Giles.  By Kathie Kleckner.

Illinois Geographical Society 2007 Distinguished Geographer Award

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 50, No. 2 (Fall 2008)

Michael Cornebise, Editor

Contents
Jones, Moneen M. and Erick Howenstine.  "Distribution of Multicolored Asian Ladybird Beetle Harmonia axyridis (Coccinellidae) across Illinois."

Changnon, Stanley A.  "A Review of the Weather-Risk Business: Challenges and Opportunities for Geographers."

Book Reviews

Native Soil: A History of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau.  By Peter Noll.

The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln.  By Dan Monroe.

From French Community to Missouri Town: Ste. Genevieve in the Nineteenth Century.  By Milton D. Rafferty.

The St. Louis Baseball Reader.  By Scott Roper.

Illinois Geographical Society 2008 Distinguished Geographer Award

Minutes of the IGS Annual Meeting in Springfield

Executive Council Meeting: April 24, 2008

Business Meeting: April 26, 2008

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Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society

Vol. 51, No. 1 (Spring 2009)

Michael Cornebise, Editor

Contents
Combs, Jason.  "Pulaski, Iowa: Small Town America's Changing Cultural Landscapes."

Marks, Erin and Gillian Acheson.  "Roodhouse: A Footnote in the Decline of the Railroads."

Book Reviews

The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television.  By Keith Sculle.

A River Through Illinois.  By John Jakle.

Days on the Family Farm From the Golden Age Through the Great Depression.  By Charles Titus.

Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason.  By Christopher Sutton.

Missouri Caves in History and Legend.  By Kevin Patrick.

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