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Early in their final pitch to jurors on Wednesday, prosecutors displayed a screenshot from an undercover video: Michael Madigan, then the powerful speaker of the Illinois House, leaning forward ...

With allegations of corruption at the highest levels of state government, the racketeering trial of former Democratic House ...

(The Center Square) – Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael ... s testimony that J.B. Pritzker considered Madigan’s job ...

the racketeering case of former House Speaker Michael Madigan and his longtime confidant, Michael McClain. The panel was sent back to deliberate at about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday after attorneys ...

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(The Center Square) – Michael Madigan’s defense team has resumed closing arguments at the former Illinois House speaker’s corruption trial in Chicago. “Job recommendations without more ...

When former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan got on the witness stand earlier this month to tell his side of the story, he said things to jurors that were “just not plausible,” a ...

Prosecutors in the historic corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan on Wednesday attacked the credibility of the defense’s star witness: Madigan himself. “What you heard on the ...