Comparable to when IDOT leaders jiggled job titles, allowing them to move hires from forbidden to permitted, says complainer.

The late alderman’s son [Jay Stone, son of former longtime Ald. Bernard Stone (50th)] likened Burke’s alleged hiring violations to the Illinois Department of Transportation’s decision to “wrongfully classify” hundreds of jobs as “staff assistants.”

That paved the way for the hiring of political appointees under two former governors, Rod Blagojevich and Pat Quinn.

“The Chicago municipal code has allowed Burke to do the same. [It] . . . has turned obvious Shakman non-exempt jobs into Shakman-exempt jobs,” Stone wrote.

The IDOT business included its director’s hiring and promoting her stepdaughter. The matter is be recounted in my soon-to-be-published Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters. For now go here and here.

Source: Ald. Burke accused of hiring ‘political hacks’ to run $100M-a-year workers’ comp program

Not a good year, my hearties:

Though neighboring and Great Lakes states added a combined 200 factory jobs per workday on net in 2015, an average of 56 Illinois manufacturing workers, on net, received pink slips each workday during the same time.

Another feather in the cap of the Ruling Party.

Source: Illinois lost 56 manufacturing jobs per workday in 2015 | Illinois Policy | An independent government watchdog

A judge who was a Bill Clinton nominee says investigation is in order of his [Bill Clinton’s] wife as lawbreaker in yet another category.

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