Precisely one month from the history-making moment former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of corruption, ...

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah left intact the conspiracy conviction and other counts against the four defendants, convicted ...

The search for Chicago’s 42nd U.S. attorney comes at a significant moment in history for an office long extolled as a model ...

A prosecutor with a 20-year record of winning major cases will step down from his job with the U.S. attorney in Chicago, NBC ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

A federal judge on Monday granted a partial retrial on several bribery counts in the case of four former executives and ...

A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case involving former House Speaker Michael ...

A Florida lawmaker can serve up to eight consecutive years in the state House or Senate, but there are loopholes.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted on 10 counts of corruption last month, including four counts ...

The judge's decision leaves intact a handful of other counts against former Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain and three ...

But the jury deadlocked on that and five other counts against Madigan and his co-defendant, longtime Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain. The jury also acquitted Madigan on seven counts of bribery ...

A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case alleging a wide-ranging plot to illegally influence then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, saying the Supreme ...