Past and present Illinois politicians have figured prominently in wiretapped conversations introduced by prosecutors at the ...

Jurors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan on Thursday heard a series of never-before-played ...

And for the last month, the “ComEd Four” case has been reprised as part of Madigan’s bribery and racketeering trial at the ...

Madigan defense attorney Daniel Collins protested and acknowledged only that there had been a “light” cross-examination of ...

Madigan and his most trusted advisor, Michael McClain, are accused of running their formidable political operation like a ...

By day five, defense attorneys' questions for ex-ComEd VP Fidel Marquez dovetailed into Marquez' divorce, a gun purchase form ...

The defense continues to cross-examine a star witness on Wednesday in Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial.

But Wednesday — 10 years to the day after Michael McClain fired off that email — Marquez found himself on a witness stand in a federal courtroom. That’s where Madigan’s defense attorney ...

Michael McClain, a self-described “agent” of the speaker who was captured on FBI wiretaps pushing contract and job requests that he said came directly from Madigan himself. On Wednesday ...

U.S. District Court records Share Federal jurors Wednesday heard Michael J. Madigan’s allies talking on secret FBI recordings about an “old-fashioned patronage system,” the need to keep ...

After a four-day break, the defense is cross-examining a star witness on Tuesday in Mike Madigan's federal corruption trial.

The public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain picked back up ...