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font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 38px; text-decoration: none;">A handful of rich families set out to remake Illinois politics. Here’s what happened.</a></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="left" style="padding: 5px 0px 0px;" class=""><h4 style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Sunday, November 29, 2015 10:09 AM EST</h4></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="summary-font" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;"></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif !important;" class="">Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire founder of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and a small group of rich supporters have poured tens of millions of dollars into Illinois, a concentration of political money without precedent in the state’s history.</td></tr><tr class=""><td style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif !important;" class="">Their wealth has forcefully shifted the state’s balance of power. Last year, the families helped elect as governor Bruce Rauner, a Griffin friend and former private equity executive from the Chicago suburbs, who estimates his own fortune at more than $500 million. Now they are rallying behind Mr. Rauner’s agenda: to cut spending and overhaul the state’s pension system, impose term limits and weaken public employee unions.</td></tr><tr class=""><td style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__p.nytimes.com_email_re-3Flocation-3D4z5Q7LhI-2BKVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgMRxlvJrAA499G58Dl51w9JOiu9MbTZ1u-2BOuufCEMRpknCA9idzV4lmxmcZQ7lmK2Fni8FmHS7olKNVoRZh1IsUZXKmiQ5jYGOTN0eHgea0BB2dWlg5CqeeeXUc-2BV5XaM-26campaign-5Fid-3D132-26instance-5Fid-3D67345-26segment-5Fid-3D81354-26user-5Fid-3D198124ce8b2571ff930f1d2d1d2fc881-26regi-5Fid-3D617704&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=LJeOlFEcfqeumbK7sxbGa2TB2EZ__rMIqyfr7uOfHEE&m=eyGrWgGH-jEfALX-lM0-Opu1OBK6q5RyTStOvBoymJY&s=UnVUeDZylZCtV9-DpzphgNj40NIzg1RHsQhnNNAiCis&e=" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">Read more »</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>