Less than two years after getting out of federal prison where he served time for a public corruptionCarothers' father, William, was a West Side alderman as well. And he went to prison for public corruption too.
Less than two years after getting out of federal prison where he served time for a public corruption conviction, former West Side alderman Isaac "Ike" Carothers is attempting a political comeback.
While state law bars Carothers from trying to win back a seat on the Chicago City Council, he's free to run for the Cook County Board.
This news comes on the heels of last week's sentencing of William "The Hog with the Big Nuts" Beavers for tax evasion and public corruption. Beavers, a former Cook County Board commissioner, was previously a South Side alderman.
Voters should be storming Illinois' city halls, county buildings, as well as the state capitol with pitchforks--but they accept crookedness and larceny as the status quo here. In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
And we deserve the worst.
And we're getting it.
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