It’s been a while since I last barked up this tree. But Gov. Pat Quinn, D, and the Democratic legislature, with their last-minute lame-duck tax increase, have managed to do something that even the Great Chicago Fire couldn’t accomplish: Drive the company that runs the Chicago Board of Trade out of Chicago.

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