Strong sense of deja vu

[Michael]Tristano was accused of steering $1.3 million in such state money to Willow Springs to help developers building a $40 million downtown project. Prosecutors allege that Tristano forced the developers to put a Downstate GOP House candidate on their payroll even though the candidate was busy campaigning in southern Illinois.

The Willow Springs project, developed by Heritage Renaissance Partners, and its investors included two politically connected businessmen convicted in the ongoing federal Operation Safe Road probe. Both investors, Alan Drazek and Roger Stanley, are on the government's potential witness list in Ryan's corruption trial. Chicago Tribune, October 13, 2005

No word on how their stormwater was handled. Does Willow Springs have an underpass?