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UNDATED (AP) -- Rod Blagojevich's ouster from the governor's office was chosen the top Illinois news story of 2009 by The Associated Press. Coming in a close second was Barack Obama taking the oath of office to become the nation's first black president, after serving as Illinois senator.
Some of the other top stories from 2009 include a cemetery scandal.
Workers at a 150-acre cemetery near Chicago -- the resting place of civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till and other prominent African-Americans -- were charged with allegedly digging up hundreds of graves in a scheme to recycle the burial plots.
And then there was Roland Burris. Senate leaders initially refused to seat Burris after his controversial appointment by Blagojevich to President Obama's old seat -- just weeks after Blagojevich's arrest for trying to sell the same seat.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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