This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. Michael Madigan, a former powerful figure in Illinois politics, was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal prison. Madigan was convicted on 10 counts ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WSIL) -- The former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was sentenced on June 13, on federal corruption charges. He was also given a $2.5 million fine.

A federal jury convicted Michael Madigan on Feb. 12, 2025, of multiple federal charges including bribery conspiracy — but jurors deadlocked on other charges in the wide-ranging indictment ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced in a message to supporters that he will not be running for U.S. Senate. The decision comes after longtime Senator Dick Durbin ...

Michael Gobber, managing broker and partner of Century 21 Circle in Westchester, has been named the 2025 Illinois Realtor of the Year, the Illinois Realtors announced. The award is in recognition ...

The conviction of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was a historic day for federal prosecutors, who had for years worked on the investigation and prosecution of the longest serving ...

Flanked by supporters and holding hands with his daughter Nicole, Illinois' former House Speaker Michael Madigan walks out of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

First elected to the Legislature in 1970, Michael Madigan was the Illinois House speaker from 1983 to 2021, except for two years when Republicans were in control.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, flanked by supporters and holding hands with daughter Nicole, walks out of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse Wednesday after jurors found him guilty on ...

Mr. Madigan served as the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1983 to 2021, with a two-year interruption in the mid-1990s when Republicans had control of the chamber.

Born on August 15, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois, to the late Michael E. and Mary Pat Dowd, Michael was the second of six children. He was raised in Glenview, Illinois, and attended Loyola Academy.