Pritzker told reporters he’d get rid of the program “immediately” should he win in November: “We’re going to get rid of them. I think diverting money away from public schools right now to private tuition tax credits seems like a really bad idea.

The cruelest month’s cruelest, as T.S. Eliot might put it.

Comment: That’s what all the high-minded preaching we’ve heard from Illinois Democrats during the election will end up meaning in practice. They’ll elect who they always do to run the General Assembly — miserably corrupt and incompetent Cook County career politicians.

Illinois’s finances are so troubled that investors can make nearly as much money betting on the worst-rated U.S. state as they can on the American Dream mall project, perhaps the most despised structure in New Jersey.