Some Illinois lawmakers are expressing hope that the General Assembly will get serious about ethics reform in 2025. Former ...

Final arguments are underway in the high-profile corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Michael Madigan was so important to ComEd’s legislative agenda in Springfield that the utility was willing to bend over ...

Ex-House speaker Michael Madigan, formerly the most powerful man in Illinois politics, “conspired to enhance and preserve ...

The outcome of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption trial will be watched closely well beyond Chicago’s ...

Michael Madigan’s defense team has begun closing arguments at the former Illinois House speaker’s corruption trial in Chicago ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's defense team began their final presentation to the jury just after lunch Friday, ...

A federal prosecutor on Friday called former House Speaker Michael Madigan “the man calling the shots,” a supreme politician ...

Madigan's defense attorney Dan Collins, when he began his own closing arguments Friday afternoon, rebutted that the ...

Friday concluded day three of closing arguments in the corruption trial for former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael ...

Real estate lawyer Michael Madigan, a lawmaker for 50 years, is accused of using ComEd as his “personal piggy bank.” ...

Madigan​ faces a 23-count indictment accusing him of running a criminal enterprise​ to enrich himself and benefit his political allies.