Illinoisan Robert Kjellander is a large man, but that’s not why they call him “Big Bob”. Kjellander is a heavyweight Illinois Republican insider. What Kjellander does for his day job is a little hard to pin down, but he and his consulting group have made millions in recent years off his connections to state officials through several deals with state-run… return to article
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