CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...

So when a cryptic email was forwarded to him in 2013 from Michael McClain, a longtime associate of House Speaker Michael Madigan, asking that ComEd shift a contract for one of Madigan’s top 13th ...

Jurors in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial on Monday heard a key wiretapped phone call in which the speaker’s longtime confidant told him about a plan to kick payments to a loyal ward aide ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Michael J. Madigan’s attorneys tried again Tuesday to distance the former Illinois House speaker from a longtime friend and confidant, pressing ComEd’s onetime ...

Pat Nabong |Sun-Times Share Six months after a 2018 scandal erupted over sexual harassment allegations in Springfield, a longtime ally of then-House Speaker Michael J. Madigan got on the phone ...

Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual harassment from a co-worker that became a turning point in Madigan’s ...

In March 2022, Madigan and McClain were charged with 22 counts of racketeering and bribery for alleged improper dealings with the state’s largest utility, ComEd.

CHICAGO – Testimony in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and his advisor Michael McClain is now in its second week and on Tuesday, Madigan’s lawyers worked to ...

After prosecutors and Madigan defense attorneys said they had nothing further, the judge told O’Neill he could step down. O’Neill left the box at about 4:05 p.m. Tuesday.

CHICAGO (WGN) — Michael Madigan’s legendary control of the Illinois House was a significant topic of discussion Wednesday in his ongoing corruption trial. The now former Illinois House Speaker ...

A sexual harassment scandal had erupted in Springfield in the summer of 2018 and Kevin Quinn, a longtime aide to House Speaker Michael Madigan, was toxic. Quinn, the brother of Madigan’s handpicked ...