While holding hands with his daughters Nicole (left) and Tiffany, Illinois’ former House Speaker Michael Madigan walks out of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after jurors found Madigan guilty of ...

The earth didn’t shake this week when former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted on corruption charges. But it could have. Perhaps it should have. This was Illinois political ...

Federal investigators, sniffing around the target-rich environment for corruption that is Illinois, were keen to bag the biggest game of all: Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Well ...

Prosecutors had argued Madigan ran his political operation like a criminal enterprise. Jurors were unable to come to an agreement on that count, with 11 voting in favor of acquittal.

Former all-powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted on corruption charges the next. Call it business as usual on steroids in the Land of Lincoln. There is, however ...

CHICAGO — The Michael Madigan jury has ended its third day of deliberations without a verdict in Illinois’ highest-stakes public corruption trial in years. The jury of eight women and four men ...

Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images/Bill Clark/Zuma Press/J. Scott Applewhite/AP Michael Madigan, the longest-serving state House speaker in Illinois history, was found guilty ...

Illinois corruption takes center stage as Michael Madigan is convicted of bribery and Rod Blagojevich gets a pardon. Plus, why a project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes is on hold.

Aaron Rodgers’ tenure with the New York Jets began with lots of fanfare and Super Bowl aspirations. It ended less than two ...

A Black-owned businesses fair, featuring 30 local businesses, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22 at the City of Refuge, 404 Brock Drive in Bloomington.