The jury in the landmark racketeering trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan and his longtime confidant deliberated ...

It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while ...

Nearly four months after they were first called to Chicago’s federal courthouse, jurors have begun deliberating in the most ...

To convict Michael Madigan of a racketeering conspiracy, jurors will need to find that Madigan or his close ally agreed that ...

Madigan​ faces a 23-count indictment accusing him of running a criminal enterprise​ to enrich himself and benefit his political allies.

Within the first five minutes of “Inheritance,” Maya (Phoebe Dynevor) has stolen a bottle of tequila, gone home with a stranger from a rave and dangled her legs out his ...

Powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan organized a “stream of bribes ... But prosecutors played a wiretapped ...

CHICAGO — Lawyers for former House Speaker Michael Madigan formally rested their case before the jury on Thursday after calling 12 witnesses, most notably Madigan himself. And prosecutors also ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s legal team rested their case Thursday, hoping to convince jurors that prosecutors overreached by bringing a historic racketeering conspiracy ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after a day of defense testimony last week. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Former Illinois House ...