Tyler Pasciak-LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share There’s no disputing the power that Michael J. Madigan once wielded in Springfield — it apparently offended even the man who is now on trial for having ...

Madigan to land the “white whale” that the utility and its top executive “had desperately wanted for the better part of a decade,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. But a defense ...

(The Center Square) – Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wants to screen the social media accounts of potential jurors after extensive pretrial publicity for one of the state’s most ...

AT&T Illinois had tried for years to win powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan’s support for a bill ending mandated landline service, but it wasn’t until the company’s president agreed to ...

When AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza received an email from the son of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan asking for a charitable contribution in 2017, he forwarded it immediately to a ...

Two days later, La Schiazza got some more promising news in the form of a call from Madigan's closest confidant, a recently retired veteran Statehouse lobbyist named Mike McClain. After that call ...

(The Center Square) – A judge said Friday that he’ll allow a professor to testify about Chicago’s political machine at former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s upcoming corruption ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves court during a break in a pretrial hearing Aug. 29 at Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. Taylor Danos Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., ...

It's the last in a series of related trials that have played out in Chicago's Dirksen Federal Courthouse over the last 18 months leading up to Madigan's own bribery and racketeering trial ...

Lawyers for former House Speaker Michael Madigan have asked a federal judge to exclude a laundry list of potentially prejudicial evidence from his upcoming racketeering trial, including details ...

Attorneys for ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan have compiled years’ worth of unflattering press about the political powerhouse in hopes that a judge will let them examine potential jurors ...