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Pritzker says Madigan should step down as party chairman

by John O'Connor
| November 5, 2020 2:27 PM

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday said that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan should step down as chairman of the state Democratic Party, agreeing with the state's senior U.S. senator that the longtime political powerbroker's implication in a federal bribery investigation hurt Democrats in Tuesday's elections.

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