Brian J. McPartlin quit as Illinois Tollway director last week. But he can't start his new job with a politically connected engineering consulting firm quite yet.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the Illinois Ethics Commission to delay approving McPartlin's request to join Chicago's McDonough Associates, a firm that has done millions of dollars of work with the Tollway.
McPartlin, 42, had asked for a waiver of the "revolving door prohibition," which requires state officials to wait a year before taking a job with a company they hired or regulated. An ethics law loophole allows the commission to grant these waivers. Only one request out of 14 has been denied since 2005.