By Adam Schuster, includes “Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s decades at the height of political power may be coming to an end. A post-Madigan Illinois presents an opportunity to undo decades of corruption and financial mismanagement that stem from his rule. No other person in Illinois, or any other state, has had as much influence over both elections and official legislative power as Madigan during the past several decades. That power binds him to the responsibility for unprecedented levels of state debt …”