ComEd

ComEd has long been a source of political patronage. The company’s Deferred Prosecution Agreement with federal prosecutors even references how former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s “old-fashioned patronage system” obtained ComEd meter reader jobs for its precinct workers.
Madigan’s wasn’t the only patronage network to do this. It was a widespread practice and, as old-timers tell it, became even more important when Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, cut some prominent White politicians out of the city’s patronage spoils.

The state legislators negotiating the new massive energy reform bill were said to have made real progress at their Tuesday working group meeting last week.
Shortly before that meeting began, a legislator who is a longtime union ally and is involved in the talks told me the consensus was that "a pound of flesh" would have to be extracted from Exelon, which wants more subsidies for two nuclear power plants and has been under a dark ethics cloud as the US Attorney's office probes its and its subsidiary ComEd's Statehouse activities.