Patrick Cotter, defense attorney for a longtime Madigan ally, spent more than three hours cross-examining former ComEd ...

After a four-day break, the defense geared up to begin cross examination on Tuesday morning in former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's federal corruption trial.

Defense attorneys began their cross-examination of a key witness Tuesday by trying to distinguish between exchanging jobs for ...

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

CHICAGO — A day and a half of intensive questioning yielded no new jurors by midday Wednesday in the corruption trial of Michael Madigan, as the already sluggish pace of jury selection slowed to ...

Former Democratic Party of Illinois campaign worker Alaina Hampton is expected to take the witness stand. Former Madigan ...

Prosecutors say that episode is evidence of a criminal enterprise Michael Madigan led for nearly a decade, with Michael ...

The public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain picked back up ...

Jurors in one of the state's highest-profile corruption cases got a lesson about the Chicago political machine Monday ...

CHICAGO — 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 attempt to criminalize ...

More than 2.1 million registered Illinois voters have already cast their ballot for the Nov. 5 general election. Data from ...

Jurors in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial on Monday heard a key wiretapped ... Late Monday afternoon, prosecutors called ...