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Newspapers Around Illinois Tell Gov. & GA: "Enough"

Front page of The SJ-R for June 29, 2016
Front page of The SJ-R for June 29, 2016
Front page of The SJ-R for June 29, 2016
Front page of The SJ-R for June 29, 2016

Across the state, thousands of newspaper subscribers were met with a single word as the headline on the front page Wednesday: "Enough." 

The State Journal-Registerof Springfield coordinated the effort to devote the entire front page to an editorial - a decision that hasn't happened at the paper in decades, if ever. Other papers published byGateHouseMedia did the same, and even papers with other publishers took the directive, such as the Chicago Sun-Times.

You can read the editorial online, here. We spoke with Angie Muhs, executive editor of The SJ-R, to learn more about the decision and the message she hopes it sends to voters and lawmakers:

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