Illinois Senate Majority Leader Vince Demuzio, elected in the 1974 post-Watergate-era Democratic landslide, died of colon cancer in April.

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Illinois Senate Majority Leader Vince Demuzio, elected in the 1974 post-Watergate-era Democratic landslide, died of colon cancer in April. He was 62. Influential and highly regarded, Demuzio was chairman of the state Democratic Party from 1986 to 1990 and a champion of downstate education. "The Illinois Senate and the people of this state have lost a great leader in every...

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