CHICAGO — Officials at AT&T Illinois felt so much pressure to hire consultants friendly to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan that they discussed setting aside $60,000 as a contingency fund in ...

CHICAGO — After 30 days of testimony over three months, prosecutors rested their case in chief Wednesday in the blockbuster public corruption trial of Michael Madigan, formerly the immensely ...

Unless Michael Madigan shocks the Illinois political world and testifies at his own federal corruption trial, the only thing the jury will have heard from him when it soon comes time to decide his ...

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere | Sun-Times Share Federal jurors have heard two months of evidence that prosecutors say proves former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan guilty of “corruption at ...

(The Center Square) – Jurors are off until next year at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain. The court is in ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Day 40 of the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain on Thursday marked the final day of testimony jurors will ...

CHICAGO — A real estate developer at the center of an alleged attempted extortion scheme by ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan testified Thursday that he never felt intimidated or pressured into ...

After nine weeks of prosecution witnesses, defense attorneys in the blockbuster corruption trial of ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan and his longtime confidante Michael McClain began presenting their ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Wednesday. Ashlee Rezin | Sun-Times Share Federal prosecutors rested their case Wednesday against former ...

After more than three months, the prosecution rested in the ongoing corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. The prosecution rested their case on Wednesday morning ...

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 ...