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It was a marriage made in heaven, as this politics-saturated city probably understands heaven. Rod Blagojevich, the future governor, met his future wife at a fund-raiser for her father, the alderman from the 33rd Ward for 30 years now. Herewith a story about the perils of politics in what is - the state's license plates say so - the Land of Lincoln.
Illinois' northern border is north of Cape Cod and the southern tip is south of Richmond, Va., but the state's beating heart is Chicago. Here the alderman and his son-in-law recently had a falling- out that began at a family Christmas gathering where talk turned, naturally enough, to a Joliet landfill that was violating laws. The landfill's operator was a relative of the alderman's family - a second cousin of the governor's wife.See the full content of this document
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As Goes Illinois, so Goes - Chicago?
THIS WAS A test for Blagojevich, 48, a former congressman. Because he hails from this city, and because his opponents warned that he would be a pawn of the alderman who launched him into poli...
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