The Electronic Documents of Illinois provides permanent public access to official publications of the State of Illinois which have been deposited in electronic form.
This newsletter describes research tools and resources made available by the Illinois State Archives. Articles in this issue include "Daly retires as State Archives director;" "Former Secretary of State employee memorialized with scholarship;" "Illinois Federal Township Plats provide glimpse of Illinois' past;" "State Archives database transcription policy;" "Northwestern Law School assists in making Chicago homicide records more widely available;" "2004-2005 IRAD internships;" and "Archives Publications."
Feature articles cover the State Library partnering with the Mortenson Center to develop international library leaders, Project Next Generation's pre-State Fair picnic, Letters About Literature, and the debut of SILC.
Press release announcing that the Illinois Board of Higher Education will consider a resolution opposing a fledgling movement to permit community colleges to offer bachelors degrees until a comprehensive study can answer questions of mission, funding, and other issues.
The Chicago Womens Health Risk Study (CWHRS) was designed to give nurses, beat officers and other primary support people information they need to know in order to help women who are experiencing violence at the hands of an intimate partner lower the risk of life-threatening injury or death. Previous research did not provide this practical information. The purpose of the CWHRS was to identify factors indicating significant danger of life-threatening injury or death in situations in which an intimate partner is physically abusing a woman. We accomplished this by conducting a study that compared longitudinal data on abused women with similar data on women who had been killed by or who killed her intimate partner.