For too many Illinois legislators, the state’s corruption crisis is not Job One. The state’s budget crisis is not Job One. Job One is making sure they hang onto their own jobs.
So they ended the regular legislative session in May by…
One way corruption creates jobs.
It’s a fine mess the Illinois legislature has gotten itself into. Its members have known since January that they had to fix a $12 billion budget deficit. But first they had to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from…
On the other hand, there were financial vices. And if somebody in City Hall saw a chance to make a fast bundle or two, Daley wasn’t given to preaching. His advice amounted to: Don’t get caught.
— Mike Royko, about Chicago…
