Report: Quinn didn’t steal anything

Posted on September 2, 2015

By Illinois News Network

SPRINGFIELD – Was it a theft or just an honest mistake? That’s the question that was asked regarding folks in former Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration and some missing sketches of fallen Illinois service members.

A Quinn spokesperson told the Daily Herald they “definitely didn’t steal anything.” The newspaper reported that Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office filed a previously unpublished police report in March about some art that went missing after Quinn left office, including sketches of military members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Daily Herald reported that Illinois State Police identified former staffers who left the sketches outside the office after hours and no charges were filed. The artwork is reportedly back with a traveling display featured this week at the DuQuoin State Fair.

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