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CHICAGO (AP) - Chances are, when six inmates broke out of the Cook County Jail earlier this month, they didn't know they were going to be drawn into a political campaign. Then again, this being Chicago, maybe they did.
In a case that seems straight out of Chicago's rollicking "Front Page" era, a jail guard is accused of helping the inmates escape in a plot to influence the election for sheriff.
"It certainly adds to the city's reputation for weird politics," said Don Rose, a political consultant in the Windy City, where a former governor is now on trial on corruption charges and legend has it that the mayor in 1960 helped John F. Kennedy get elected by conjuring up votes from the dead.
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