This state's long, troubled, expensive episode with Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor, appears far from over.

But as prosecutors prepare to retry Mr. Blagojevich on the most serious corruption charges against him - charges that a federal jury found itself deadlocked over on Tuesday - one thing does seem to have come and gone: the impetus to cleanse Illinois's long-derided political system.

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