IL

Guvs 2, Tollway 1

Have the Illinois Tollway’s past problems with the law hurt it politically? The previous executive-director Robert Hickman went from the Tollway to jail, convicted of thieving $240k.

Did this make the Tollway vulnerable to political attack by the present Governor, I asked a Chicagoan?

“Not at all, it goes with the territory,” he replied: “There have been six governors during the life of the Illinois Tollway, which only sent one of its bosses to jail, while at the Governor’s office out of six governors two went to jail.”

So it seems that in the Chicago Bigshots Jailbird game the present score is:

Governors 2, Tollway 1.