If Obama Wins. . . .

Be sure to watch what happens to Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney who has been in the midst of cleaning the swamps in Chicago. Obama has promised to keep Fitzgerald on the job. He'd better. As the indispensable John Kass points out:

Will the next president keep Patrick Fitzgerald as the U.S. attorney in Chicago?

I really can't say. What are political promises worth from politicians with debts to pay?

But here's what I do know. There is no story more important to the people of Chicago and of Illinois than the future of Fitzgerald, who has systematically hunted down the corruption.

Corruption the Chicago Way doesn't only waste money and burden taxpayers. This isn't only about isolated instances of graft and amusing, earthy rapscallions. That is a cartoon. The reality is that Illinois political corruption is an infection that spreads. The people either are numbed and deny it, or they feel pressured to suck up to their overlords. That's not American. That's positively Medieval.

Emphasis mine. Read the whole thing.