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Rita Crundwell was comptroller for the City of Dixon, Illinois, until she was caught after swiping around $54 million dollars and sent to prison for a term of 19 and a half years. Now, she's out of jail.

Back in 1962, Richard Nixon, after losing to Pat Brown in California's gubernatorial election, uttered the famous quote "you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

After all the years of a sometimes circus-like atmosphere surrounding him and his legal problems, it looks like the judicial system is done with former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich as of yesterday.

Now that Rod Blagojevich is out of prison, here are some future career opportunity ideas for him.

It's been eight years since his conviction on corruption charges. They're just now getting around to this?

I know it's hard to believe, given our state's sterling reputation, that someone in elected office decided to screw over those responsible for electing them.

This morning's decision by the Supreme Court basically means that Illinois' former Governor has run out of chances to get out of prison early.

A former volunteer firefighter from Orangeville is going to prison, for setting fires.

How's that for a teaser? Who is Illinois' 2nd most famous resident? And, for that matter, who is the 1st most famous? And really, being Illinois, "went to prison" could mean a lot of different famous people.

Well, this is an interesting turn of events. Almost three years ago, the Obama administration purchased the nearly-vacant Thomson prison from the state of Illinois for $165 million dollars. At the time, there was much concern over the possibility that detainees being held in the Guantanamo Bay prison would be transferred to Illinois...