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GOP Candidate Faces Divorce Questions

The leader in the Illinois Republican Senate primary fended off fresh questions Sunday about his divorce files as the Democratic front-runner got an emotional endorsement from civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and visited black churches.

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In Springfield, Republican leader Jack Ryan again refused to make public the contents of sealed child-custody papers stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan.

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The pressure on Ryan to unseal the documents intensified as another Republican candidate, Jim Oberweis, called on Ryan to "clear the air."


Oberweis suggested Sunday that former Gov. Jim Edgar, state GOP Chairwoman Judy Baar Topinka or Cardinal Francis George of Chicago could view the records and assure voters there was nothing of concern. At a Republican dinner in Peoria, Oberweis met briefly with Ryan to discuss the proposal, but Ryan turned it down.


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