Workers at Thompson Center watch governor
Posted December 19, 2008 10:00 pm
Work all but stopped at the James R. Thompson Center as employees watched Gov. Rod Blagojevich make his first public statements since his arrest on federal corruption charges.
All over the state government office building in downtown Chicago Friday, workers could be seen crowded around TV sets or watching Blagojevich on computers at their desks.
One of those watching was Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. He came by the press room, saw the crowd and said he was going to his office to watch the news conference.
Inside the press room, it was packed with journalists including one TV crew that was from Serbia. The story is huge in that country because it's where Blagojevich's ancestors are from.
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