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Column: FBI tracks Michael Madigan in Chicago's great tiger hunt
In all the heat and excitement over the capture of a little bitty gator in a park lagoon, many of you have been distracted from the most dramatic hunt of all:
Chicago's great tiger hunt.
In modern Chicago, FBI agents also wear suits on the hunt. But they stalk the silent carpeted corridors of politics, commerce and the law. They look for signs of political muscle. And they, too, use bait, but not stupid goats. Instead they catch jackals and send these out to lure the tiger into traps.
Chicago's great tiger has no stripes. He's no Shere Khan.
He's Mike Madigan, the longest-serving state legislative speaker in American history, the Democratic political boss of Illinois who controls just about everything.
"It's obvious the feds are going after Mike," said a Madigan supporter. "I don't think he's done anything wrong. And he's too careful for them. But look at what they're doing."
Whether he's done anything wrong or not, we just don't know. He's not been charged with a thing. But it's clear the FBI is taking the ground away from him by raiding his allies.
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