Michael Phillips: Is Illinois governor's sales pitch to Hollywood working?

CHICAGO — In olden times, the phrase “going Hollywood” carried a double-edged sword. It signified great things (fame, riches, dancing with “sun-kissed babies,” as the 1933 song “Going Hollywood” put it) as well as dubious ones (selling out, grasping for dollars, prostitution of one kind or another). Last month Gov. J.B. Pritzker went Hollywood, with high hopes for strengthening the economic ...

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