Alaina Hampton’s participation as a government witness was revealed Tuesday as jury selection in Madigan’s racketeering trial finally got underway. The Tribune broke the story in February 2018 ...

Jurors in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial on Monday heard a key wiretapped phone call in which the speaker’s longtime confidant told him about a plan to kick payments to a loyal ward aide ...

The trial is expected, generally, to run Monday through Thursday starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m. Madigan served in ...

Andrew Madigan is not accused of wrongdoing. Shortly after presenting the emails, prosecutors rested their case after calling ...

Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker is important to ComEd.” That’s what a jury heard Monday as testimony in Madigan’s ...

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

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Michael J. Madigan’s attorneys tried again Tuesday to distance the former Illinois House speaker from a longtime friend and confidant, pressing ComEd’s onetime ...

For each vote on the various bills, prosecutors recorded the bill number, the date, and whether Madigan supported it. O’Neill said that in 2011, ComEd lobbyists worked to pass the Energy ...

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

Madigan took as long as some trials do from start to finish. After seven days and scores of interviews, eight women and four men have been chosen to decide if Madigan is guilty of a racketeering ...