Both current and former Illinois legislators are applauding last week’s guilty verdict in the corruption case against Michael ...

With allegations of corruption at the highest levels of state government, the racketeering trial of former Democratic House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and his longtime confidant, ex-lobbyist ...

CHICAGO — The Michael Madigan jury has ended its third day of deliberations without a verdict in Illinois’ highest-stakes public corruption trial in years. The jury of eight women and four men ...

CHICAGO — Jurors in the Michael Madigan trial on Tuesday afternoon closed out their fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. The jury began their discussion last Wednesday ...

Illinois taxpayers are off the hook for Michael Madigan’s future pension payments, now that the former Illinois House speaker ...

Most folks just figured that Mike Madigan had avoided the long arm of federal law by being extra-careful. And he may have ...

CHICAGO — Lawyers for former House Speaker Michael Madigan formally rested their case before the jury on Thursday after calling 12 witnesses, most notably Madigan himself. And prosecutors also ...

CHICAGO — It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing ...

Madigan attorney Dan Collins wrapped up his final arguments on behalf of the former speaker Monday afternoon. Collins reminded the jury that the indictment against Madigan is not evidence and ...

CHICAGO — As former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s defense lawyers began their closing arguments last week, attorney Dan Collins pointed to something the former speaker said when he ...

Madigan, D-Chicago, served in the Illinois House from 1971 to 2021 and was speaker for all but two years between 1983 and 2021. He chaired the Democratic Party of Illinois for 23 years.