While federal prosecutors continue their probe into the ComEd bribery scandal that implicates House Speaker Michael Madigan, a citizen hopes another avenue will hold the speaker to account.

Back in July, federal prosecutors released a deferred prosecution agreement ComEd entered into where the utility admitted it paid $1.3 million in bribes to associates of “Public Official A,” who was identified in court documents as the Illinois House Speaker. That’s been Madigan for all but two years since 1983. The utility has testified in a public hearing it paid the bribes through jobs and vendor contracts for little to no work in an effort to influence the speaker.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is dumping an Illinois official who’s under investigation for trying to force a state agency to give President Donald J. Trump a refund of more than $1 million on the property taxes he paid on his Chicago skyscraper eight years ago.

Mauro Glorioso, executive director and general counsel for the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, will be out of his job as of Thursday as the Trump case continues to cast a cloud over a state agency that’s also grappling with a backlog of about 90,000 tax cases.

Illinois is one of the worst states in the country for representation on Election Day.

A study by the personal finance website WalletHub compared each state’s voter distribution to its electorate distribution by race, age and gender to come up with a Voter Representation Index. Then they applied the same approach to determine the National Voter Representation Index, which compares U.S. voters to the national electorate based on four additional demographic categories: employment status, family income, educational attainment and marital status.

Four Cook County judges who are on the November ballot, running to keep their jobs, have had their rulings reversed on appeal 98 times among them over the past six years — more than three times as often as their colleagues, an Injustice Watch investigation has found.

Margaret Ann Brennan, Patrick J. Sherlock, Kenneth J. Wadas and Anna Helen Demacopoulos are the only judges seeking retention to each have more than a dozen decisions reversed by higher courts in the six years since they were last retained.

In 2004, when Cook County Circuit Judge Kenneth J. Wadas sentenced Benard McKinley to 100 years in prison for a murder committed at age 16, McKinley knew what it meant.

“I felt as if Wadas had sentenced me to die in prison,” McKinley, now 35, says from Stateville Correctional Center. “I felt like my life was over.”