CHICAGO — On the eve of his retirement announcement in late 2016, longtime Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain wrote letters to longtime colleagues, expressing his appreciation for them. In one ...

After a long week of intensive questioning, a panel of 12 people who will decide the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was finalized Thursday, although attorneys for both sides ...

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

Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker is important to ComEd.” That’s what a jury heard Monday as testimony in Madigan’s ...

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 ...

Prosecutors on Monday focused on a disgraced former associate in the public corruption trial of former Speaker of the ...

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 ...

Michael McClain (left), co-defendant of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan (right), leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse following a day of jury selection in their trial. Anthony ...

(The Center Square) – One of Michael Madigan’s longtime staffers spent a second day testifying at the former Illinois House Speaker’s bribery and racketeering trial. Will Cousineau spent ...

(CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS) - On a late October day in Springfield nearly five years ago, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael ...

owing to the length of Madigan's. U.S. District Judge Robert Blakey has warned the pace would delay the trial one week beyond its original 10-week schedule. On Friday, Blakey and the attorneys ...

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