CHICAGO — Ex-House speaker Michael Madigan, formerly the most powerful man in Illinois politics, “conspired to enhance and ...

After three months, more than five dozen witnesses and an array of thorny legal scuffles, attorneys in the landmark ...

Closing statements officially got underway Thursday afternoon, more than three months after the corruption trial of Madigan ...

She testified Monday that over the years, Olivo, Nice, Moody and former 23rd Ward Ald. Michael Zalewski were added one by one to the list of people to whom Gallegos sent checks. ComEd’s monthly ...

Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan is set to return to the stand Wednesday morning, continuing testimony that will surely be some of the most crucial and closely examined of the bombshell public ...

Madigan, along with his co-defendant, Mike McClain, are accused of running a criminal enterprise that sought to use his ...

In addition to former utility chief Anne Pramaggiore, defendants in the federal bribery case include former ComEd lobbyist Michael McClain ... Carrie Zalewski's was the only vote for Attorney ...

In another call, then state Rep. Michael Zalewski, D-Riverside, told McClain that he would like his wife Carrie to be appointed to the Illinois Commerce Commission. McClain recommended that ...