It's not those things you mentioned that hurt IL as people left and right support all of that (so long as there is no corruption). What is killing Il...

He's getting major minutes too. Good for him he deserved it.

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Not all football and basketball players would be optimal soccer players. There are likely more kids in organized soccer in US than any other county. ...

On these civil service hirings are points or preferences given outside the realm of merit? Do hirings take place where the "fix is in" from an HR sta...

Dunn’s office .. created Manering’s position within the Institute for International Studies, and simultaneously handpicked Manering to fill it." You d...

I'm not approving of whatever occurred, but most public high level hires and almost all professional hires nowadays are corrupt as shit. Call it "pre...

How many upper level folks have we churned thru SIU over the last 30 years that this doesn't apply to?

Isn't there already applesbys, chilis and others in town? CDale needed the return of Popeyes (it happened), needed a culver's (happening), needs a ho...

I don't think anyone downstate has the payola required to grease the paws of the three boss hawgs (gov, house leader, senate leader) in Springfield to...

OK. Help me out here. Why does Cairo need a new port?

Lack of pawprints 5 inches wide and 8 inches long is a dead give away. There are 100s of good old boys that would pull over and check out tracks li...

I wonder what it would cost to open a Popeyes in Harrisburg?

Not really seeing the corruption and certainly not even approaching the scale of things that happen every day in public institutions. If a fast track...