From taxpayer- and donor-funded spending sprees by the president of an Illinois public college, to Chicago’s red-light-camera ticketing and kick-back schemes, 2015 has been rife with instances of public corruption and lack of government transparency.

As a majority of recently polled likely Chicago voters believe Mayor Rahm Emanuel should resign, AM 560’s Dan Proft and Pat Hughes, co-founder of the Illinois Opportunity Project, look ahead to the 2019 mayoral election and the possibilities for reform-minded candidates.

April saw two major players in Illinois education ensnared in charges of cronyism, among more than 60 other corruption-related stories.

April showers bring May flowers, but all March gave us was 53 new corruption stories in Illinois.