“We don’t tolerate inappropriate behavior. We just don’t tolerate it,” House Speaker Michael Madigan insisted Tuesday, vowing to end a culture of sexual harassment and bullying in Illinois government and politics. Maybe it was a moment of enlightened leadership. Maybe Madigan knows that he’s been evasive and calculating in his responses to allegations of misconduct within his political operation.

But does Madigan have the credibility, and the commitment to an independent investigation, that ending misbehavior requires? Consider his lack of previous interest in such protections. The job of legislative inspector general, responsible for reviewing allegations of misconduct in the General Assembly, was vacant for three years until autumn 2017. Three years! Then the national #MeToo movement touched down in Illinois, amid allegations of bad behavior by state Sen. Ira Silverstein, D-Chicago. In those three years, 27 complaints of misconduct in the legislature gathered dust.

It appears House Speaker Mike Madigan’s call for all legislative leaders to follow his lead and release a list of the complaints involving harassment, intimidation and retaliation involving their caucuses has fallen on deaf ears.

Madigan said earlier this week he prepared “an educational document,” making public a list of nine complaints from the past five years, without identifying any of those accused.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has tapped one of his top administrators — who is also a decorated retired Marine officer — to take over the state’s response to the Legionnaires’ disease “crisis” at the Downstate Quincy Veterans Home.

Michael Hoffman, acting head of the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, was named named senior adviser to the governor “to lead the next phase of the state’s response to the health crisis,” Rauner’s office announced Friday afternoon.

Legislation to legalize recreational marijuana use throughout the state is being revised to gain more bipartisan support in an effort to secure a veto-proof majority.

State Rep. Kelly Cassidy and state Sen. Heather Steans introduced the bills last year, but the Chicago Democrats are rewriting some aspects to make the legislation more attractive to Republican counterparts.

McHenry County College again will raise its tuition and fee rates.

The $3 a-credit-hour hike is set to take effect in the summer semester. Students now will pay $123.75, up from the former rate of $121. The current rate will be 25 cents less than the tuition raise because of a decrease in a recently implemented infrastructure fee.

Libertyville Village Administrator Christopher Clark is on paid administrative leave for unspecified reasons.

Mayor Terry Weppler confirmed Friday the action against Clark was taken was taken Tuesday. Clark started his position in Libertyville in December 2016.

Striking graduate assistants at the University of Illinois wrapped up five days of picketing Friday afternoon with talk of resumed negotiations in the works.

The Graduate Employees Organization announced Friday morning that it had sent a message to the university’s bargaining team requesting a meeting.