The outcome of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption trial will be watched closely well beyond Chicago’s federal courthouse, with the verdict representing a potential make ...

Government attorneys have started their final rebuttal at the bribery, racketeering and official misconduct trial of former ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan continues. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...

Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of bribery, racketeering and official misconduct in a trial that began with jury selection on Oct. 8. Chicago attorney Sam ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, is the latest in a long line of state politicians to go on trial for alleged corruption. Madigan and former lawmaker-turned-lobbyist ...

The deal was being put together by then-Chicago ... Madigan instructed Solis to reach out to Michael McClain to see if he could help. McClain was Madigan’s top adviser and the trial’s Madigan ...

Earlier Wednesday, the jury heard from the defense’s final witness: Springfield lobbyist Heather Wier Vaught, who’d served a dozen years as an attorney in Madigan’s office, including as chief counsel.

(AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File) CHICAGO (CN) — Defense attorneys for ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan rested their case in the once-powerful politician's federal corruption trial on Thursday ...

CHICAGO – For the past three months, the judge presiding over former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial has reminded jurors before each lunch break ... State of Illinois ...