Workers install a picture and nameplate of Pat Quinn, former Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, as governor at the entrance to the State Capitol shortly after Rod Blagojevich was removed from office by the Illinois Senate in Springfield, Illinois Jan. 29, 2009.
U.S. Senator-designate Roland Burris (D-IL) speaks at a news conference in Chicago January 12, 2009. U.S. In the latest in a series of shifting accounts of his conduct, Sen. Roland W. Burris told reporters that he tried to raise money for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the same time he was asking Blagojevich to appoint him to the Senate. |
