Campaign contributions to Welch's wife raises question: Is Madigan era truly over?
Politicians who operate in ways that bring them personal benefit could end up on a slippery slope.
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Politicians who operate in ways that bring them personal benefit could end up on a slippery slope.
(The Center Square) – Illinois is the third most corrupt state on the University of Illinois at Chicago’s annual report for the third year in a row. House Republicans say the way Democrats craft budgets can feed into the problem. ...
“The sheer number and political stature of the Illinois elected officials and business leaders who were implicated, indicted or convicted in the 2020 is staggering,” University of Illinois at Chicago professor and former 44th Ward Ald. Dick Simpson said.
Chicago has not always had the most cordial relationship with democracy over decades of machine-style politics. A new book from a longtime Chicago political observer Dick Simpson aims to diagnose what’s wrong and offer prescriptions to fix it.
Simpson says the Jan. 6 insurrection was a powerful symbol of the danger facing democracy, but there are other troubling signs.