For the first time in four years, Rod Blagojevich’s crimes and punishment are not the biggest story of the year in Illinois.
The Associated Press says the state’s lingering, and worsening, pension crisis and the failed efforts to fix it rank at number one this year, followed by the drought. But the start of Blagojevich’s prison term still came in at number three.
[Those stories could all factor into our own countdown of the biggest state and local stories of the year… you’ll hear that next weekend on 970 WMAY.]
