Column: Extortion: There oughta be a law! (But there’s not in Illinois.) – Chicago Tribune*

David Greising, of the Better Government Association: "The bills died, each time, under the offices of Madigan, sources told me. Madigan’s legal staff told backers of the bills there was concern a state extortion law would criminalize normal legislative horse trading — the scratch-your-back wrangling at the heart of the Springfield lawmaking process."