At least someone's using the mansion

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Separating the donkeys from the elephants from the pork and everything else that makes politics and government so much fun to cover.

John Patterson has been covering the Illinois Capitol since 1996 and for the Daily Herald since 2000.

He’s watched control of state government go from Republican red to solid Democratic blue, Barack Obama’s rise to stardom and George Ryan’s fall from grace.

He’s covered presidential conventions in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston and New York, made coffee runs for D.C. editors as an intern and now helps guide reporting interns as the senior state government editor in the Daily Herald’s Springfield bureau.