From Chicago Sun Times:

Is another Chicagoan joining the Obama administration bandwagon?

Attorney General Lisa Madigan tried to put to rest speculation Tuesday that she is being considered for director of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Congress is expected to create as soon as next week. The federal bureau’s director will serve a five-year term.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan tried to put to rest speculation Tuesday that she is being considered for director of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Congress is expected to create as soon as next week. The federal bureau’s director will serve a five-year term.

Madigan, a two-term incumbent who has made consumer finances a hallmark of her office’s watchdog role, announced a year ago that she is running for re-election as attorney general.

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