Editorial: The glaring hole in Springfield’s to-do list: A corruption cleanup bill – Chicago Tribune

"Free the legislative inspector general from interference and oversight by the very lawmakers the inspector general is supposed to investigate. Reconfigure the ethics commission to make it truly independent — to facilitate the IG’s work, not impede it. That means no lawmaker should serve as a member. It’s a baked-in conflict of interest. And allow the IG greater powers to interview and investigate complaints and make them public without signoff of the commission."