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State Week: IL Attorney General Candidates, The Soda Tax and Courting Amazon

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Sean Crawford,

Charles N. Wheeler III

Published September 22, 2017 at 1:29 PM CDT

Brian Mackey

NPR Illinois

With Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's announcement last week that she won't be running for re-election, hopefuls are lining up to run. Opposition is building against Cook County's controversial soda tax. And Governor Bruce Rauner is promoting Illinois as a great location for Amazon's new headquarters.

Rick Pearson of the Chicago Tribune and the State Journal-Register's Bernie Schoenburg join the panel.

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The former director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.

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