"If you read the indictment, it's not just an indictment of Madigan; it's almost an indictment of the whole political system in Illinois," said John Shaw, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
He didn’t found IL political corruption, but he surely mastered it.