Madigan defense aims to show speaker was so powerful, companies in case may have made political hiring decisions to keep from ...

Jurors are off until next year at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and ...

Judge John Blakey sent jurors home Thursday until Jan. 2, giving them their longest break since Michael Madigan's trial began ...

A real estate developer at the center of an alleged attempted extortion scheme by ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan testified ...

Co-defendant Mike McClain's attorneys rested their case Thursday. Madigan's attorney called Andrew Cretal to the witness ...

Day 40 of the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain on ...

(The Center Square) – Defense attorneys have begun making their case at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker ...

It’s a crucial moment that shifts Madigan’s trial into a new phase. Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain are on trial for ...

Defense lawyers for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called their first witness in his federal corruption trial.

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's defense attorneys began presenting their case Thursday at the Dirksen Federal ...

Madigan's co-defendant Mike McClain — a longtime ally of the ex-speaker as well as a veteran lobbyist in Springfield — ...

After calling 50 witnesses over the last two months, prosecutors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal ...