| About the search below: Note that the
search is set to GENERAL NEWS and MAJOR
PAPERS. The first search term is ST.
CLAIR-MONROE POST set to full text--that
matters. The second is police
(caps in search terms don't matter by the way) set to headline
and lead paragraphs. Date is set to Previous
Two Years. This search returns 150+ documents. How you deal
with this: Click on the Relevance
link to rerank the documents. Then, click on the Expanded
List tab to allow you to skim quickly. If you set police
to full text. You get 380+ articles. |
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| About the search below:
The first search term is ST. CLAIR-MONROE POST
set to full text. The second term, crime,
is also set to full text. Date is
set to Previous Two Years. The
search returns 190+ documents. Use the Relevance link to re-rank.
Then, the Expanded List tab. |
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| About the search below: The
first search term is ST. CLAIR-MONROE POST
set to full text. The second term,
Assistance, is also set to full text. The date is set to Previous Two
Years. You will get 190+ documents. Use the Relevance
link to re-rank. Then, the Expanded List
tab. This search will pull up articles about public assistance--which is
one way of getting at poverty. |
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| About the search below:The
first search term is ST. CLAIR-MONROE POST
set to full text. The second search
term is (income or revenue or earnings) set
to full text.
The parentheses must be included. The date is set to Previous
Two Years. The search returns 290+ documents. Use the Relevance
link to re-rank. Then, the Expanded List
tab. |
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| About this search: This search gets at
funding for education, an important determinant of the quality of
education. The first search term is ST.
CLAIR-MONROE POST set to full text. The
second search term is (education w/15 fund!) set
to full text.
The parentheses must be included. This will find documents in
which the word education must be
within 15 words of fund/ed/ing.
The date is set to Previous Two
Years. The search returns 100 documents. Use the Relevance
link to re-rank. Then, the Expanded List
tab. |
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| About this search. This search attempts to
capture documents dealing with standardized test scores. The
first search term is ST. CLAIR-MONROE POST
set to full text. The second search
term is ((score! w/15 test!) w/25 school!) set
to full text.
The parentheses must be included--note that there are two
sets of them. The date is set to the Previous
Two Years. The search returns 11 documents. |
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| About the search below. This search tries
to get at documents concerning housing (usually public housing and
property tax, a key way of funding public services in Illinois. The
first search term is ST. CLAIR-MONROE POST
set to full text. The second term is
(housing or property tax!) set to full
text. The parentheses must be included. The date is set to
the Previous Two Years. The search
returns 240 documents. Use the Relevance
link to re-rank. Then, the Expanded List
tab. |
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| About the search below: This search looks
for articles on pollution. Polluted areas are often economically
blighted and prone to every sort of social ill. The
first search term is ST. CLAIR-MONROE POST
set to full text. The second search
term is pollut! which will find
documents with pollute/s/ed/ing
The date is set to the Previous Two
Years. This search locates 45+ articles. Use the Relevance
link to re-rank. Then, the Expanded List
tab. |
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