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John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network There was a lot of talking during Wednesday’s Legislative Audit Commission hearing on the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, but not from witnesses. All declined to speak, citing the ongoing federal investigation of the troubled anti-violence program championed by Gov...

We've talked a whole lot on the show about the Governor's troubled anti-violence program, called the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative. Ostensibly the effort was designed to help combat the violence problem in Chicago and Cook County, but it more and more appears that it was $55 million in slush fund dollars to help the Governor win re-election...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network Gov. Pat Quinn says he is not going to testify before the commission examining the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative. This is the anti-violence program the governor established in 2010 that the auditor general says was mismanaged...