It's been said. . .

“If morals don't get to them, I hope the fear of going to jail does.”

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to reporters following the verdict in the Antoin Rezko trial; the FBI reportedly has beefed up its official corruption squad in Illinois

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"People borrow to stave off the day of reckoning, and then when credit tightens, the bankruptcy numbers go up."

Prof. Robert Lawless, University of Illinois School of Law, on Mar. 31, 2008 bankruptcy stats showing Illinois with fourth highest per capita filings in country, behind Tenn., Georgia, and Alabama

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“I had a pretty good idea that this was going to happen today, and yet, when it actually did happen, I realized what an awesome thing it was.”

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas R. Fitzgerald, who was selected to become chief justice in September succeeding Chief Justice Robert R. Thomas