Chicago Is a "Dark Pool Of Political Corruption"

Last Updated: Mon, 02/22/2010 - 11:57am

A major U.S. city long known as a hotbed of pay-to-play politics infested with clout and patronage has seen nearly 150 employees, politicians and contractors get convicted of corruption in the last five decades.

Chicago has long been distinguished for its pandemic of public corruption, but actual cumulative figures have never been offered like this. The astounding information is featured in a lengthy reportpublished by one of Illinois’s biggest public universities.

Cook County, the nation’s second largest, has been a “dark pool of political corruptionâ€