Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican, dies at 79
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 79.
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