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.” ...

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 ...

Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual harassment from a co-worker that became a turning point in Madigan’s ...

CHICAGO — Jurors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan saw a series of undercover videos on ...

Karen Conti, Partner at Conti & Dolan LLC, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the Madigan corruption trial, and highlight the fact that there is a difference between what is “immoral” and what is actually ...

In a subsequent conversation, McClain informed Marquez that Moody was “someone that was important to Mike Madigan,” Illinois’ longtime House speaker, and that he’d been paying Moody ...

CHICAGO — Jurors on Thursday heard the first of some 200 recordings in the trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a blockbuster corruption case that hinges in large part on ...

CHICAGO — On the eve of his retirement announcement in late 2016, longtime Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain wrote letters to longtime colleagues, expressing his appreciation for them.