Ray Long - Watching The Velvet Hammer

Ray Long, was cub reporter at the Statehouse in Springfield when he first encountered former Speaker of the Illinois House, Michael Madigan, during the 1980s.  Long’s book, The House That Madigan Built, is the definitive account of a machine politician who led a vast patronage army. In this episode, Lissa Druss and Thom Serafin excavate the crisis of ‘trust’ in government.