John Kass: Former Chicago FBI chief questions whether local prosecutors have ‘the will’ to take on Illinois corruption – Chicago Tribune

Rob Grant, former special agent in charge of the Chicago FBI: “I always wondered why, when I was here, why the attorney general of the state of Illinois and other prosecuting officials never tackled the corruption that was so endemic in this area,” Grant said. “I never got a straight answer,” Grant said. "...But there’s a very low level of desire, it appears to me, in the state of Illinois and in Cook County, to actually take on this particular crime problem in this city and this state and it’s left to the feds to do that job. Part of it is tools, part of it is will and determination. And I have yet to see it, quite frankly in the state of Illinois and in Cook County.”