Madigan agreed to toss a small — but potentially key — piece of testimony Wednesday that put Madigan’s co-defendant in the room with him during discussion of a 2016 ComEd bill. It’s a ...

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 ...

So when a cryptic email was forwarded to him in 2013 from Michael McClain, a longtime associate of House Speaker Michael Madigan, asking that ComEd shift a contract for one of Madigan’s top 13th ...

“I felt pressured to do it, and (McClain and Hooker) did impact the timing,” O’Neill said Monday as Madigan and McClain’s trial on racketeering charges entered its fourth week. Besides the ...

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 over several years as a “favor” so Madigan would be “more positively disposed toward ComEd’s legislative agenda.” It’s a crucial piece of testimony in Madigan’s 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 ...

Pat Nabong |Sun-Times Share Six months after a 2018 scandal erupted over sexual harassment allegations in Springfield, a longtime ally of then-House Speaker Michael J. Madigan got on the phone ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ex-ComEd attorney Tom O'Neill returned to the stand Tuesday in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial. He resumed his testimony just after 9 a.m ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thursday began in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial with a motion to exclude some evidence. Defense attorneys filed a motion to exclude any ...