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Our View: D.C. political games can hurt back home

Election year games in Washington sometimes can have a significant impact on the home front.

Because a lot is at stake in this presidential election year, we might as well get used to being a front-row spectator between now and the Nov. 6 election.

Seems as though the state of Illinois’ proposed sale of the maximum-security Thomson Correctional Center to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is involved in the latest game of political football.

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