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

Illinois’ culture of corruption may leave many feeling hopeless. But elected officials, from Gov. JB Pritzker to township ...

There's little reason to doubt what happened tonight — the firing of Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez — will go down ...

Madigan trial highlights lobbying, real estate dealings, and testimony contradicting bribery and extortion allegations.bri ...

Matthew Greenlaw pleaded guilty to two counts of gross sexual assault and one count of dissemination of sexually explicit material.

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

No wonder the settlement was hidden under the false name of “Philip Dough,” an action that Baltimore County IG Kelly Madigan bent over backwards to find was not “malicious.” [OP-ED] ...

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

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

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

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

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