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Report: Illinois Third Most Corrupt State, Chicago the Most Corrupt City in America

Report: Illinois Third Most Corrupt State, Chicago the Most Corrupt City in America

“The group used the most recent figures from the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section”

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A report released from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that per capita Illinois is the third most corrupt state/district (following Washington D. C. and Louisiana) and that Chicago is the most corrupt city in America.

Fox News reports:

Chicago may be known as the “Second City,” but it remains Number 1 in the ranking of most corrupt big cities in the nation, according to a new report.

The report, titled “Corruption in Chicago and Illinois,” released Monday from the University of Illinois at Chicago notes that while there’s been a decline in recent years of federal convictions for public corruption, the Windy City still leads other localities.

“Additionally, Illinois remains the third most corrupt state when compared on a per capita basis to other large states and the District of Columbia,” the report’s authors note.

The group used the most recent figures from the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section, which found that there were a total of 25 public corruption convictions during 2017 in the Northern District of Illinois, which includes all of Chicago and the northern third of Illinois. That was down from 30 in 2016 and down an average of 33.6 per year over the last 10 years.

. . . . Since 1976, when the DOJ began keeping track of public corruption statistics, there were 1,731 people convicted of public corruption in the Chicago area. In the same time period, there were 1,534 people in Los Angeles, 1,327 in New York, 1,165 in Miami and 1,159 in Washington D.C.

. . . . The state of Illinois did not fare much better in the report, which examined convictions per capita. The District of Columbia led with 1,159 convictions (17.24 per capita) in the same 47-year period, followed by Louisiana with 1,202 (2.57), Illinois with 2,102 (1.63), Tennessee with 1,015 (1.54), and New York with 2,860 (1.44).

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Comments

Any correlation to long-term Democrat rule and the list? Who knew?

See, this is based on federal convictions. That means Chicago officials are a bunch of amateurs. Here in New Jersey, our corrupt officials are smart enough to evade prosecution. We’re the real champs, doggone it!

One of many reasons those of us in downstate Illinois would like to see Chicago secede, and become part of Wisconsin.

Seriously, who is surprised by this? Chicago’s been corrupt for well over a hundred years.

rinardman, my solution is and has been to let Chicago sink beneath the waves of Lake Michigan, never to surface again. The rest of us in N IL are just as sick of $#!+cago as you downstaters are.