* Zorn: “Day in and day out, the pantomime routines in the General Assembly can fool you into thinking that the process is pretty much like what your middle-school civics teacher taught you about how a bill becomes law. But when it comes to big, controversial issues, it’s much more like what your history teacher taught you about how monarchs dominated the peasantry.”
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* Editorial: Look who’s not talking about corruption
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* Troutman denies ‘ho’s’ remark - Attends meeting despite arrest
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* County leader rips Springfield - 40 layoffs in DuPage blamed on nixed tax