Jurors in the landmark public corruption trial of Michael Madigan are continuing their deliberations Friday, the eighth day ...

Ex- Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is awaiting a verdict in his federal corruption trial. Here’s a timeline of key ...

Jurors will have to consider 23 counts against Madigan alleging an array of schemes to enrich his political allies and line his pockets. McClain is charged in six of those counts. To assist their ...

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 began ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share When Michael J. Madigan’s longtime friend penned a retirement letter in 2016, he compared the record-breaking Illinois House speaker to Chicago’s famous ...

It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing checkers ...

Madigan served in the Illinois House from 1971 to 2021 and was speaker for all but two years between 1983 and 2021. He chaired the Democratic Party of Illinois for 23 years.

Madigan is charged with 23 counts of bribery, racketeering and official misconduct in connection with a scheme prosecutors called “The Madigan Enterprise.” Codefendant Michael McClain is ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The jury resumed deliberations on Friday in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal bribery and racketeering trial. The jury started deliberating 14-and-a-half ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Share Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan will soon learn whether a jury believes he’s guilty of a sweeping racketeering conspiracy, but for a moment ...