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Sunday, April 27
The Daily Herald's John Patterson rounds up some opinions on the good and bad of graft in Illinois politics. Depending on whom you ask, either "the breadth and volume of the problem in this state is absolutely without compare" or "that's what we get periodically as the price of getting things done." [via]