-By Phil Kadner, Southtown Star
Voters who want an opportunity to recall elected officials will get a chance to voice their anger in November.
Every 20 years, Illinois is required to ask voters if they want to hold a constitutional convention, and this is one of those years.
A recall amendment to the Illinois Constitution was killed in the state Senate after passing the House this year.
The good news is that a constitutional convention could take another look at recall. The bad news (according to critics) is that everything else would be up for grabs.
People opposed to a con-con (the abbreviation for constitutional convention) caution that special interest groups will come out of the woodwork to pursue their favorite causes.
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