Marathon Pundit: A good start: Illinois eliminates 75 boards and commissions

Putnam County, Illinois

The bad news is that there are still 317 other boards and commissions.

From Chuck Goudie of ABC 7 Chicago:

Governor Pat Quinn signed an order eliminating 75 state boards and commissions.

The governor's move comes four months after the ABC7 iTeam exposed widespread problems with Illinois boards.

State boards and commissions are intended to draw citizens into government, keep elected leaders honest and make sure tax money isn't wasted. In Illinois, that hasn't gone too well.

As the iTeam reported last November, many boards became vast wastelands of political cronyism and hundreds of other board positions simply went unfilled. It was system that critics called costly and unnecessary.