Chicago Named America’s Most Corrupt City, Illinois Third-most Corrupt State

   

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Published on Feb 21, 2020

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CHICAGO — Chicago remains America’s most corrupt city, and Illinois the third-most corrupt state, according to a new report from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The report, co-authored by UIC professor and former Ald. Dick Simpson, is based on an analysis of the public corruption statistics published by the U.S. Department of Justice.

In 2018, there were 13 public corruption convictions in the Northern District of Illinois, which includes all of Chicago and the northern third of Illinois — a five-year low, despite renewed attention on public corruption during the past 18 months.

The rest of the state had five public corruption convictions that year for a state total of 18, according to Simpson’s findings based on the most recent DOJ data available.

The DOJ’s data used contains statistics from 1976 through the end of 2018.

During that time period, Chicago had a total of 1,750 public corruption convictions. For comparison, Los Angeles has seen 1,547 cases, while the New York City borough of Manhattan saw 1,360.

To get a fuller picture of public and political corruption in Chicago and Illinois, Simpson and his colleagues examined reports from the Cook County state’s attorney and from inspectors general at the state and local levels. The researchers also studied news stories.

“Our study shows that Chicago remains the most corrupt city in the United States with 1,750 total public corruption convictions from 1976 through 2018,” Simpson said. “This number is even more troubling when compared to the second-place city, Los Angeles, which has had 200 fewer convictions in that time period,” Simpson said.

Illinois remains the third-most corrupt state, based on the formula that compares the number of each area’s corruption convictions with its population, according to the report issued by Simpson and his students.

While federal convictions for public corruption tapered “slightly” in 2018, since then there has been an increase in news reports about investigations launched during that year.

For example, on Nov. 29, 2018, federal agents raided City Hall offices of City Council Finance Committee Chairman Ald. Ed Burke (14th).

Link to Article:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/democrats_you_did_build_that_chicago_named_most_corrupt_city_in_us.html


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