"I went to the same high school as he did and I’ve always heard of him to be a good person,” jury foreman Timothy Nessner ...

"It was a mountain of evidence and a lot of the recordings we listened to, we listened to over and over and over again," said ...

Madigan was convicted Wednesday of bribery conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud charges on Wednesday​, but acquitted of seven ...

A jury is still working toward a decision at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael ...

A Chicago Democrat who once set much of Illinois' political agenda as the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history ...

The jury in trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and longtime political confidant Michael McClain sent a ...

With the four-month trial now in the rearview mirror, a juror from the Michael Madigan trial explained why they were able to convict the former speaker on some counts, but not others.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan minced no words on the day Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, his longtime political nemesis, was arrested on federal corruption charges in December 2008. “Today’s ...

Madigan, along with co-defendant and longtime confidante Michael McClain, also appeared in the courtroom that presided in ...

Michael Madigan, once the state of Illinois’ most powerful politician during his decades-long run as Illinois House Speaker ...

Jurors in the landmark corruption trial of Michael Madigan on Thursday concluded their seventh day of deliberations without ...

Jurors weighing the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan have reached a verdict on a majority of counts, but ...