CHICAGO - Despite pleas from national GOP leaders, the state treasurer said she won't run for the U.S. Senate seat that her fellow Republican, Peter Fitzgerald, is giving up after one term. "I am not fond of Washington. I prefer to live in Illinois," Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, also the state's GOP chairwoman, said Monday. "I have no desire to run, and I will not do so." Republican leaders had met with her Monday to try to persuade her to run. She is the only statewide Republican officeholder to survive a scandal-driven election debacle last November. If she resigned as...