Chicago's Long Legacy Of Corruption

141 years worth.

Cook County has been a "dark pool of political corruption" for more than a century, a new study by the University of Illinois at Chicago says.

Nearly 150 employees, politicians and contractors in the nation's second-largest county have been convicted on corruption charges since 1957, according to a report released Thursday by the university and the Better Government Association.

And those are the ones who were caught. And I'm betting that these were little fish thrown to keep the alligators fed so that they didn't go after the juicier targets. Honest people do not prosper or succeed in the Chicago machine.