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Sic transit annus horribilis
It was a very dark year, but not without glimmers of hope for the future
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Ted Cox2020 Year in Review, Annus Horribilis, Lorado Taft, Graceland Cemetery, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Trump Impeachment, Kamala Harris, Lauren Underwood, Jim Oberweis, Sean Casten, Jeanne Ives, Dick Durbin, Illinois Teacher Shortage, IDES, Illinois Insulin, Women's March Chicago, Rod Blagojevich, Michael Madigan, ComEd Bribery, Fair Tax Amendment, Thomas Kilbride, Michael Frerichs, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Anna IL, Illinois Legalization, Illinois Legal Marijuana, Illinois Recreational Marijuana, Illinois Adult-Use Cannabis Revenue, Illinois Adult-Use Cannabis, Angela Jackson, John Prine, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amy Coney Barrett, Bruno the Bear, U.S. Census, COVID-19, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Vaccine
Fifth Illinois poet laureate: Angela Jackson
Chicagoan follows in footsteps of Sandburg, Brooks, and Prine
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John Prine: Posthumous Illinois poet laureate
Pritzker forms 13-member search committee to determine next state poet laureate
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Ted CoxJohn Prine, J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Poet Laureate, Roger Ebert, Oh Boy Records, Todd Snider, Old Town School of Folk Music, Willie Dixon, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Austin, Kevin Stein, Fiona Whelan Prine, Capitol Fax, Sandra Cisneros, M.K. Pritzker, Shirley Madigan, Nora Brooks Blakely, Susan Dickson, Greg McCormick, Kevin Coval, Kara Jackson