(The Center Square) – Illinois political leaders are mourning the passing of former Gov. Jim Edgar .

Edgar died Sunday at the age of 79. He served as Illinois governor from 1991 to 1999, and before that as Illinois Secretary of State from 1981 to 1991.

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The Edgar Fellows Program at the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs said as the 38th governor, Edgar inherited the largest budget deficit in state history at that time.

“He made hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts. He found ways to deliver services more effic

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