CHICAGO—A surge in campaign spending has filtered down to one of the more obscure races here, making the normally innocuous battle for comptroller among the most expensive campaigns ever for a state office in Illinois. The winner gets the pleasure of writing checks in a state that is almost $10 billion in the hole and muddling through the worst budget crisis in its history. The previous comptroller, who died shortly after winning...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 05, 2016 15:00 UTC