In the news: with a little federal help, cleaner cars and unionized jobs could come to Illinois, and Mayor Daley suggests the Obama administration follow his lead on privatization.
It doesn't really matter who Governor Blagojevich appoints to fill Barack Obama's vacant seat--we're not going to get any independent leadership out of it anyway.
The federal complaint against Governor Rod Blagojevich alleges he tried to muscle the Chicago Tribune into firing editorial writer John McCormick in exchange for assistance on the sale of Wrigley Field.