Column: Illinois law says ex-pols can keep campaign cash for personal use. One just pocketed $392,606. – Chicago Sun-Times*

Mark Brown: "(Michael) Sheahan is collecting somewhere upwards of $225,000 a year in county and city pensions, more than he ever made as sheriff. When he left office in 2006, the Chicago Democrat still had $924,749 in his campaign fund. By law, he would have been allowed to keep $561,332 for himself because that was how much he had in the account on June 30, 1998."