AP Published: February 16, 2009
The Chicago Tribune will use its news and editorial pages to campaign against what it calls “the Illinois culture of political sleaze.“ The paper said in a Sunday editorial that too much state government has been surrendered to “crooks and opportunists.“ One former governor, George Ryan, is behind bars on a corruption conviction and another, Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich), has just been impeached amid allegations that he tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat. The Tribune says its focus will be to attack secrecy in government, entice state and local prosecutors to go after corrupt officials and empower law-abiding public servants to help make Illinois more honest and fair. It also says readers must “demand better” from their public officials.

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