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An audit of the Burr Ridge-based Teamsters Local 731 has revealed alleged impropriety in the union’s leadership.
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The Illinois General Assembly heads into the final scheduled week of its spring session facing unresolved issues from the budget to a proposal to help the Chicago Bears move to the suburbs.
Eleven days after serving a federal prison term for corruption, a former Illinois legislator from Chicago’s western suburbs registered as a state government lobbyist last month, according to federal and state records.
Ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton pleaded guilty last summer to embezzling funds from a labor union and was sentenced to more than a year in prison. But he was released early — and 11 days later, he registered as a lobbyist with a public relations and government affairs firm.
Senate Minority leader John Curran (R-Downers Grove) is calling out Democratic lawmakers in the state for allowing corruption to go unchecked in Springfield.