The City of Chicago has once again won the dubious honor of being the most corrupt city in America. Meanwhile, Illinois has been deemed the third most corrupt state.

The assessment comes from an annual report by the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-authored by UIC professor Dick Simpson a former Chicago alderman. the study is based on public corruption statistics published by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to Block Club Chicago.

The report notes that 13 public officials in the Chicago district have been convicted on charges of corruption. It isn’t just the city, either. 300 suburban politicians have gone to jail over 40 years, Simpson said.

The rest of Illinois had five more officials convicted on corruption charges last year.

Chicago has been in complete control by Democrats for nearly 100 years and Illinois for 30.

The city and state have seen some of the most convictions of public officials between 1976 and 2018.

“During that time period, Chicago had a total of 1,750 public corruption convictions. For comparison, Los Angeles has seen 1,547 cases, while the New York City borough of Manhattan saw 1,360,” the website reported.

“Our study shows that Chicago remains the most corrupt city in the United States with 1,750 total public corruption convictions from 1976 through 2018. This number is even more troubling when compared to the second-place city, Los Angeles, which has had 200 fewer convictions in that time period,” the study’s author said.

According to the DOJ data, on a per capita basis, Illinois ranked as the third-most corrupt state.

Illinois remains the third-most corrupt state, based on the formula that compares the number of each area’s corruption convictions with its population, according to the report issued by Simpson and his students.

While federal convictions for public corruption tapered “slightly” in 2018, since then there has been an increase in news reports about investigations launched during that yea

Illinois was beat out for the number one slot only by the District of Columbia and the state of Louisiana.

“The District of Columbia was No. 1, while Louisiana was No. 2. The states of New York, California, Texas and Florida each had more total corruption convictions than Illinois, but their populations are larger, placing them lower in the ranking,” the site said.

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