In 2011, as Thomas O’Neill was in Springfield pushing for legislation on behalf of utility giant ComEd, he heard one question over and over:
What did Michael Madigan think of the bill?
“Everyone – I think without fail, but most everyone – was interested in where the speaker stood on this,” O’Neill, formerly ComEd’s general counsel, testified Monday in Madigan’s corruption trial. “House, Senate, Rs, Ds.”…