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Question of the day
Thursday, Jun 1, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller * If you’ve been to the Statehouse this week, you may have noticed that former Gov. Pat Quinn’s portrait is missing, even though it was unveiled back on May 8th…  * Several people asked me if I knew what was going on, so I reached out to Quinn’s people…
Let’s lighten things up a little. * The Question: What “really” happened to the Quinn portrait? Put on your finest tinfoil hats and get to it.
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- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:45 pm:
Blagojevich got jealous and had one of his ex-felon friends steal it.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:46 pm:
It’s working day and night… and has no time for hanging in no hallway!
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:48 pm:
Sale of the Century….
Buy the Thompson Center and we’ll throw in the official portrait of the last former Governor not in jail.
- Union Dues - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:49 pm:
I heard it has been moved to a Super 8.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:49 pm:
Not unlike Hogwarts, the Capitol pictures, and their subjects in them, move…
- wordslinger - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:49 pm:
Squeezy got loose and took it down to the Chamber of Secrets.
- Michelle Flaherty - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:51 pm:
He liked it so much he took it for his campaign office.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:51 pm:
Loaned to the Illinois Soybean Association to aid in the design of their new mascot, “Bean Bro.”
- Christopher - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:52 pm:
Rauner needed some kindlin’ to keep the fire burnin’ at the his Fairgrounds home.
- A Jack - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:52 pm:
The glare from the top of his head was blinding too many visitors, so the artist is adding a hat.
- Michelle Flaherty - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:53 pm:
“looked off in the light of the Capitol”
I thought that was all part of accurately portraying the Quinndergarten’s tenure on the second floor.
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:54 pm:
In other news, the Tick Tock mascot was arrested in the state capitol for stealing for stealing the portrait of former Governor Quinn.
When questioned by Capitol Police, Tick Tock stated “Hey, gotta save room on that wall for my guy.”
- Roy - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:55 pm:
The artist is adding an empty refrigerator and a lawnmower to the background.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:56 pm:
It looked too much like Ed Asner, so the artist is redoing it to make it look more like Carroll O’Connor.
- Just me - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:56 pm:
Sold at auction to pay the pension debt.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:57 pm:
To keep with the Quinnochio theme, Disney engineers are adding a motion-sensitive growing nose.
- Dolphin - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:58 pm:
He decided 44 items weren’t enough and realized there were 15 other “books” listing his “accomplishments” that needed to be added.
- A Jack - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:58 pm:
The artist forgot to include “Betsy,” Quinn’s briefcase. Betsy became very depressed and threatened to swallow Squeezy if the painting was not fixed.
- Tommydanger - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:58 pm:
I understand it was intended to save money and create efficiencies by reducing the number of portraits by 1/3.
- Dropper - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:59 pm:
Mike Madigan and the gubernatorial portraits he controls.
- Nick Name - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:59 pm:
AFSCME black ops commandos stole it, hoping to auction it off to raise money for back pay the state still owes union members.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:59 pm:
Per Governor Quinn’s request, the background is being replaced with black velvet.
- Shivermetimbers - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 1:59 pm:
Because . . . Madigan!
- Whatthewhat - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:00 pm:
Yet another hostage of the Rauner reign
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:00 pm:
All I’m saying is Fenwick has lots of room for paintings in their hallways… K?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:02 pm:
Having a brass plaque added to the frame that reads, “What, me worry?”
- Anon221 - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:04 pm:
First the ILGA website and now Quinn’s portrait…. did Rauner get his hands on a DeLorean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQbRFZU7rE
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:04 pm:
Bought by Rauner for his Halloween “Haunted Capitol Funhouse.”
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:04 pm:
The Guv had Goldberg steal it in the middle of the night and is holding it hostage until the Majority Party passes Real Reforms.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:04 pm:
Pat Quinn ran out of business cards…
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:06 pm:
On loan to the Louvre, where it will be hung next to their portrait of Jerry Lewis.
- cracked screen - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:06 pm:
Clearly Speaker Madigan had it removed. Why? I don’t know. But it has to have something to do with Lisa Madigan becoming Governor in 2018.
- Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:09 pm:
After watching Seinfeld reruns, Quinn decided he wanted a ‘Costanza portrait’.
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:10 pm:
Pat had a sandwich board made with it in front and is walking around Chicago gathering petition signatures with it. It is Festival Season, you know? (As heard on the radio earlier this week, yes, he is in fact going around passing his mayoral term limit petitions again.)
- Almost the Weekend - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:14 pm:
They moved it to the IDOT building in Springfield.
- ILooked - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:14 pm:
Rumor has it a similarly sized and shaped object covered in duct tape was seen in an immaculately clean workshop.
- Almost the Weekend - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:15 pm:
AFSCME still teaching Pat Quinn a lesson
- Rogue Roni - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:16 pm:
It’s in the basement of the pizza restaurant where John Podesta keeps his kids
- train111 - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:17 pm:
Bruce Rauner stole it out of jealousy knowing that even PJQ was a better governor than him.
- Can I Move - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:20 pm:
It’s hanging at the State Capitol in Chicago.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:21 pm:
Former Quinn staffers “accidentally” moved it to his former campaign headquarters.
- Edvard Munch - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:21 pm:
That’s all that’s holding up those paintings? Good thing they’re unlikely to be coveted by anyone.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:21 pm:
CMS is storing it in Bill Cellini’s garage at the low, low price of 500K a year.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:22 pm:
The Russians
- downstate commissioner - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:23 pm:
Quinn took it down because he was so embarrassed with state government now that didn’t want to be associated with it in any way. Also he realized that Rauner was eventually end up there alongside him…
- Bulbous1 - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:24 pm:
Ocean’s Fourteen ?
The Thomas Crown Affair ?
- Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:29 pm:
Quinn portrait removed due to absence of soy-based paints.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:29 pm:
Now hanging in the “Ripley’s Believe-It-or-Not Museum” in the Wisconsin Dells.
- @MisterJayEm - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:30 pm:
I’ll bet it’s out collecting signatures for something or another.
– MrJM
- AC - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:33 pm:
Tic Tock ran off with it, it’s why they banned him (or her) from the Capitol.
- Walter Concrete - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:35 pm:
1) The former governor asked for the portrait to be retouched up by the artist. An image of Blagojevich was identified in the background of the painting.
2) The portrait suffered from “Dorian Gray” issues and it went haywire when the legislative session ended.
- thechampaignlife - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:39 pm:
It sleeps with the fishes.
- Norseman - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:40 pm:
Rauner was afraid people would remember his criticism of Quinn for the credit downgrades now that Rauner has taken Illinois’ credit rating to new depths.
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:53 pm:
–They moved it to the IDOT building in Springfield.–
Heck, it got hired at IDOT.
- AC - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:54 pm:
It’s now hanging in the lobby of the Citizens Utility Board.
- Cantankerous Cal - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 2:59 pm:
Bill Morgan is going to have to surreptitiously return it one day following a search at 676.
- W Flag - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:03 pm:
The Quinn portrait has been put on permanent display at Chicago State University where the former governor appointed so many good stewards of that esteemed institution of higher learning.
- Harvest76 - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:03 pm:
The governor imposed a two-week term limit on the painting. So, it’s been retired.
- Amalia - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
Chris Kennedy has it in the hope that some of the authentic Quinn mojo will rub off.
- Excessively Rabid - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
Held by S&P as collateral.
- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
The artist is revising it to reflect the reality of Pat Quinn’s constantly slumped shoulders.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:18 pm:
It is now in your encyclopedia funk & Wagnalls under GADFLY
- lake county democrat - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:24 pm:
Quinn missed the feeling of throwing his reform commission under the bus, so he did it to his artist.
- Northsider - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:27 pm:
A Constitutional amendment cut the governor’s gallery back by one-third.
- City Zen - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:32 pm:
The portrait, much like the income tax hike, was temporary.
- Foster brooks - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:34 pm:
Blago’s former cell mate stole it
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:37 pm:
The moral of the story is, when Squeezy aaks if there’s room for Squeezy in the portrait, you find room in the portrait for Squeezy. Or else
- Lance Mannion - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 3:42 pm:
“Convinced he looked too docile, the former Gov re-commissioned his portrait and instructed his artist to have him pictured with a tough-looking goatee.”
- Wensicia - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 4:14 pm:
I’m not sayin’ who took the portrait, but look for multiple dart holes when it’s returned.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 4:19 pm:
Now hanging in the White House, in the Covfefe Gallery.
- Biker - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 4:38 pm:
Moodys is revising their Illinois credit downgrades assessed under Quinn given the retrospective view of gradual fiscal competence rather than the current immediate freight train towards fiscal insolvency.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 4:50 pm:
Re-possessed by the artist due to nonpayment of his fee.
- NWSider 36th Ward - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 5:04 pm:
The painter is owed money from the state and hasn’t been paid, so he repossessed it.
- Southside Markie - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 6:17 pm:
The bare wall was a better reflection of Quinn’s tenure.
- Athenian - Thursday, Jun 1, 17 @ 8:03 pm:
It was relocated from the “Governor’s Gallery” to a place of honor in the “Accidental Governor’s Gallery”…
- Way Way Down Here - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 7:06 am:
Just sayin’ Very funny folks. Good job!
- So tired of political hacks - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 7:36 am:
=CMS is storing it in Bill Cellini’s garage at the low, low price of 500K a year.=
Lol, gotta give it to wordslinger!! ROFLAO
- NorthsideNoMore - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 7:43 am:
Picture giving away money for road projects that still haven’t been engineered