Precisely one month from the history-making moment former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of corruption, ...

A corruption-busting prosecutor with a 20-year track record of winning major cases will step down from his job with the ...

CHICAGO -- A federal judge on Monday granted a partial retrial on several bribery counts in the case of four former ...

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah left intact the conspiracy conviction and other counts against the four defendants, convicted ...

The search for Chicago’s 42nd U.S. attorney comes at a significant moment in history for an office long extolled as a model ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

The high-profile racketeering bribery trial of former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and his co-defendant, Michael McClain, has been the most highly-anticipated trial in years.

A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case involving former House Speaker Michael ...

A jury has delivered a split verdict against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, finding him guilty on 10 of 23 criminal counts in his case. The jury also found Madigan not guilty on ...

Former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption conviction drew plaudits from suburban lawmakers and prompted calls to strengthen weak state ethics laws that have ...

The judge's decision leaves intact a handful of other counts against former Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain and three ...

Chicago’s top federal prosecutor for public corruption has submitted his resignation effective March 14, a spokesman for the ...