By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
The New York-bound musical "Kinky Boots" enjoyed a pre-Broadway run at a downtown Chicago theater this fall, but only after the state of Illinois lured producers with something that's scarce these days _ money.
Raizin, with Broadway in Chicago, said the tax credit's impact goes beyond a monetary figure.
"When word starts to really spread nationally and internationally about the great city we have, that's where the huge value is," he said.