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 ...

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 ...

Madigan agreed to toss a small — but potentially key — piece of testimony Wednesday that put Madigan’s co-defendant in the room with him during discussion of a 2016 ComEd bill. It’s a ...

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 ...

(The Center Square) – One of Michael Madigan’s longtime staffers spent ... had become a “Swiss Army knife” of a witness. Pugh argued that Hampton should not be allowed to testify about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madigan over several years as a “favor” so Madigan would be “more positively disposed toward ComEd’s legislative agenda.” It’s a crucial piece of testimony in Madigan’s federal ...

Madigan et al is scheduled to resume Wednesday morning at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. Greg Bishop and Brett Rowland contributed to this story. Show comments ...

Karen Conti, Partner at Conti & Dolan LLC, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the Madigan corruption trial, and highlight the fact that there is a difference between what is “immoral” and what is actually ...