10-year term limit for House speaker, Senate president more than sufficient

After Michael J. Madigan’s 36 years as Illinois House Speaker, a 10-year term limit on current and future speakers doesn’t seem like a lot of time in the big chair. Except it is. Nobody prior to Madigan had ever served 10 years as speaker in this state, going back to when Illinois became a state in 1818. The only person who came close was Republican Warren Wood, who held the position for eight years in the 1950s. Most of the rest served single terms or two terms. Democrat Paul Powell, served…