The Illinois Democrat once lauded as the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history has been found guilty of some ...

Illinois corruption takes center stage as Michael Madigan is convicted of bribery and Rod Blagojevich gets a pardon. Plus, why a project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes is on hold.

Michael Madigan, once the state of Illinois’ most powerful politician during his decades-long run as Illinois House Speaker ...

After a four-month trial featuring more than 60 witnesses, followed by nearly 65 hours of deliberations, a federal jury this morning found former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan guilty of ...

Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, has joined ...

Michael Madigan breached and violated that trust over ... left the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago without commenting, his family by his side. The verdict, reached after two weeks of ...

Several of his family members attended the trial ... First elected to the Legislature in 1970, Michael Madigan was the Illinois House speaker from 1983 to 2021, except for two years when ...