Found in the Chicago Tribune:
Here’s how the Chicago Tribune summarizes the Federal charges:
“For years, federal prosecutors say, he used his positions to create a fiefdom of graft, shaking down business owners who needed liquor licenses, forcing a developer to install air conditioning in his home for free, and even enlisting McCook’s police chief as his personal bagman.”
The Tribune article reports on the “mid-level” corruption reaching from the Cook County suburbs to Springfield.
The Tribune story is behind a paywall, but the article from the Sun-Times is not.
