Once powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is stepping down from his elected office, a Democratic ward committeeman's post.
Then-Speaker Michael Madigan works the floor as the Illinois House convenes at the Bank of Springfield Center on Jan. 8, 2021.next April, is relinquishing his final remaining and longest-held elected office, Democratic committeeman for the 13th ward.
In an interview that is part of the Richard J. Daley Oral History Collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Madigan said the mayor wanted him to take control of a ward that previously had a strong Republican committeeman.Madigan pulled together the disparate interests of the ward’s Polish, Italian, Irish and Lithuanian populations and built an organization that survived multiple changes in demographics over the years, including a more recent heavy influx of Hispanic residents.
But in more recent years, his vaunted political organization began to crumble amid #MeToo allegations even before Madigan was caught up in a sweeping federal corruption probe that ultimately forced him to step down as head of the state’s Democratic Party, House Speaker and state representative. Quinn indicated his conversation with Madigan about the committee office was brief and did not elaborate on the party’s direction post-Madigan.
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