Scope and Contents ILLINOIS STATECRAFT Howard, political reporter and statehouse correspondent, recalls personalities and events from his career as a journalist covering Illinois government. He discusses working for the Associated Press, political issues, Depression, violence in the coal mines, Springfield, Governor Horner's administration, Chicago-downstate relations, the 1934 and 1935 Illinois Republican conventions, politics, Stratton and Kerner administrations, the Orville Hodge scandal, reapportionment,...