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 ...

Despite a prediction by prosecutors that they planned to rest their case on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...