The week began with Michael Madigan’s attorneys insisting no one had the right to speak for the speaker — that Madigan was ...

Marquez made that decision on Jan. 16, 2019, after FBI agents confronted him at his mother’s home around ... Hooker and Doherty — not Madigan. Michael J. Madigan was the longest-serving ...

Prosecutors have begun to firm up one of the key pillars of their case, alleging Michael Madigan accepted bribes from ComEd in exchange for favorable treatment of the utility’s bills in Springfield.

Finding a jury to hear the case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan took as long as some trials do from ...

Jurors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan are expected to see undercover videos Wednesday made by a former ComEd executive detailing an alleged scheme by the utility to ...

The Democratic Party of Illinois and political committees controlled by then-Speaker Madigan paid $275,000 to settle the lawsuit. The committees included Friends of Michael J. Madigan and the 13th ...

After Madigan was voted in as speaker that year, he gave almost every House Democrat an engraved clock that read: “The Honorable Michael J. Madigan. Longest-serving Speaker of a state House of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan began last week. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what ...

Michael J. Madigan was the longest-serving state House ... agent surprised Marquez around 6 a.m. on Jan. 16, 2019, at his mother’s home to confront him with evidence they’d gathered against ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s defense attorney Thursday did little to challenge a notorious 2018 phone call secretly recorded by the FBI in which Madigan’s alleged ...