Defense attorneys have begun cross-examining a convicted former ComEd executive at the bribery and racketeering trial of ...

Damon Cheronis, Managing Partner at Cheronis & Parente LLC, joins Lisa Dent to talk about former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan’s corruption trial. As the trial continues, ‘politics as ...

In 2011, as Thomas O’Neill was in Springfield pushing for legislation on behalf of utility giant ComEd, he heard one question over and over: What did Michael Madigan think of the bill?

A white former Ohio police officer charged with murder in the shooting of Andre Hill has testified that he thought he saw a gun in the Black man's hand. Former ...

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 ...

Madigan and his codefendant and longtime confidant, lobbyist Michael McClain, are facing a 117-page, 23-count indictment that charges them with racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s defense attorney Thursday did little to challenge a notorious 2018 phone call secretly recorded by the FBI in which Madigan’s alleged ...

A lawyer for former House Speaker Michael Madigan told jurors at the outset of his corruption trial that the Democratic powerhouse was “completely ignorant” of what people were saying behind ...

A ComEd vice president testified Wednesday in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan that the utility giant was in severe financial straits leading up to its all-out effort to ...

Lou Lang, D-Skokie, has taken the witness stand at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain. When prosecutor Amar Bhachu ...

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 ...