Darren Bailey sees the harassment scandal rocking House Speaker Mike Madigan’s office as being representative of all the dysfunction now gripping Springfield.
Welfare offices in Harrisburg and Mount Carmel saw food stamp costs drop by an average of 3.67 percent from January 2015 to January 2017, according to a Southeast Illinois News analysis of 66 Illinois welfare offices.
The Illinois political scene is not immune to complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace, and recently House Speaker Michael Madigan has been criticized for how he handled one such complaint.
Government pension funds in Eldorado, Fairfield and Harrisburg depended least on taxpayer contributions to make ends meet in 2016, according to the Illinois Department of Insurance.