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Old 02-06-2013, 01:42 PM
 
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And I believe Governor Dan Walker lived in Deerfield, which is in Lake County, at the time of his election.

It's strange to lump him in with the Cook County Democratic machine since he was a blood enemy of the late Mayor Daley and ran on an anti-machine platform.
Not to defend Walker, but he was sent to jail after being Governor for bank fraud or something. It had nothing to do with him being in office like Blags and Ryan.
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Old 02-06-2013, 10:26 PM
 
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Arguably Walker would never have been in position to fradulently represent himself as some body that could run a bank if he were not governor but his crime was clearly not directly related to personally profiting from campaign funds as Ryan and Blago did. And it is true he ran as and outsider...
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