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Talking politics and today's vitriolic climate with the deans of Chicago political reporting

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Jim Williams recently sat down for a roundtable discussion with his former CBS News Chicago colleagues Derrick Blakley and Mike Flannery, and the recently retired Craig Dellimore of WBBM Newsradio, to discuss their careers, today’s politics in their splintered and hostile state.

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