Madigan defense attorney Daniel Collins protested and acknowledged only that there had been a “light” cross-examination of ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – For five days, one of the star witnesses in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal ...

The defense continues to cross-examine a star witness on Wednesday in Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial.

Defense attorneys have begun cross-examining a convicted former ComEd executive at the bribery and racketeering trial of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted ...

A lawyer for ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime confidant told a federal jury Tuesday that the allegations of bribery and corruption against the pair were simply a misguided attempt to ...

Former House Speaker Michael Madigan may have spent decades at the pinnacle of Illinois politics, but at his core he was simply a soft-spoken, nonconfrontational Southwest Side guy trying to ...

(The Center Square) – The bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker and Democratic Party of Illinois Chairman Michael Madigan is set to resume Tuesday after a four-day weekend.

Madigan consists of more than 200 recordings that prosecutors promised jurors would hear over the next several weeks. The tapes could begin to roll as soon as Thursday. And if the first few days ...

McClain’s attorney, John Mitchell, argued that the bribery case brought against his client and Madigan were an overreach, wrongly criminalizing legal political lobbying. Prosecutors allege that ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan continued Thursday, with testimony from a well-known politician who worked closely with the so-called ...

Nov. 8—A Tacoma man accused of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12 during a camping trip to East Lewis County over Labor Day is now facing one count of first-degree child molestation ...