University President William P. Leahy, S.J., will host the annual Recognition Reception and Dinner for retiring Boston College faculty and staff on June 1. Because the COVID-19 pandemic forced the ...

Patrick Cotter, defense attorney for a longtime Madigan ally, spent more than three hours cross-examining former ComEd ...

Michael J. Madigan was the longest-serving state House speaker in the United States. That position made him the leader of the Illinois House of Representatives for nearly four decades, where he ...

After Madigan was voted in as speaker that year, he gave almost every House Democrat an engraved clock that read: “The Honorable Michael J. Madigan. Longest-serving Speaker of a state House of ...

ComEd once found its fate tied so crucially to the Illinois Legislature dominated by Michael J. Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker ...

The Democratic Party of Illinois and political committees controlled by then-Speaker Madigan paid $275,000 to settle the lawsuit. The committees included Friends of Michael J. Madigan and the 13th ...

(The Center Square) – Defense attorneys have begun cross-examining a convicted former ComEd executive at the bribery and ...

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 ...

In March 2022, Madigan and McClain were charged with 22 counts of racketeering and bribery for alleged improper dealings with the state’s largest utility, ComEd.

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 ...