State integrity news for Illinois, from Illinois Statehouse News:

Northstar Lottery Group won a 2010 contract to manage the Illinois State Lottery that could enrich the firm by more than $300 million over five years, but a Franklin Center investigation has discovered that irregularities marred the state’s selection process.

GTECH, which owns 80 percent of Northstar, poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a campaign fund that funneled $1.5 million to Gov. Pat Quinn’s 2010 campaign. Just six weeks before Election Day 2010, Quinn announced that Northstar would receive the lucrative contract to manage the lottery.

Read the rest of the story at Illinois Statehouse News.