Talking about his time as chairman of the executive article committee for the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention, Joseph A. Tecson reflected on his role in helping create the rules for how state officials would be elected. “The committee, like most committees, started out being split rather down the middle politically and geographically,” he said in 1987 about the group of 116 delegates that included future political heavyweights Richard M. Daley, Michael J. Madigan and Dawn Clark Netsch. “My …