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

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

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

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

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah tossed four of the nine counts on which the “ComEd Four” were convicted, agreeing with ...

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 lead federal prosecutor in the corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is stepping down.

A veteran prosecutor who played a key role in the recent trials of ex-Ald. Edward Burke and former House Speaker Michael ...

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

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

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted on 10 counts of corruption last month, including four counts ...

A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case alleging a wide-ranging plot to illegally influence then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, saying the Supreme ...