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CHICAGO — Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias appeared undaunted by the shuttering of his family’s bank, saying he would continue his bid to keep President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat in Democratic hands.
“My campaign for the United States Senate goes forward with a renewed determination to turn Illinois’ economy around and to fix what’s broken in Washington, D.C.,” he said late Friday, hours after regulators shut down Broadway Bank.
Giannoulias, 34, has tried to take some political and public relations sting out of the collapse, acknowledging the bank was likely to fail but blaming the economy.
