CHICAGO — Jurors on Thursday heard the first of some 200 recordings in the trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a blockbuster corruption case that hinges in large part on ...

Wiretapped conversations have taken center stage at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain. Prosecutors played a series of recordings ...

(The Center Square) – Former elected officials are recalling the extent of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s power and the impact he had on the state’s politics and finances. Madigan ...

Former House Speaker Michael Madigan arrives at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse Monday October 21, 2024 This week began with opening statements in the racketeering conspiracy trial of former Illinois ...

He was especially likely to be in the third-floor office suite occupied by his longtime friend Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, along with his top deputies and staff. It was in a conversation ...

He was especially likely to be in the third-floor office suite occupied by his longtime friend Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, along with his top deputies and staff. Capitol News Illinois ...

(The Center Square) – The first witnesses have taken the stand in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. U.S. government prosecutors called two former state ...

CHICAGO – On a hot Tuesday in July 2017, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan met with then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis at the speaker’s law offices in a high rise building at the heart of ...

Federal prosecutors in the corruption trial of Michael Madigan are continuing to paint the former Illinois House speaker as a powerful – and sometimes vindictive – leader during his reign.

A lawyer for ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime confidant told a federal jury Tuesday that the allegations of bribery and corruption against the pair were simply a misguided attempt to ...