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Illinois Statecraft Oral History Project

Editor's Note: Oral History Project Saves Key Illinoisans' Memories

Dana Heupel

“People assume, because I was so sort of early in all this, that I was heavily discriminated against — and I probably was — but I’d always claim I was too…