Under the cloud of a severe snowstorm in Springfield during lame duck session, the Illinois Senate passed a measure Republicans warn would allow illegal immigrants to whitewash their backgrounds to ev ...

Jurors are scheduled to return from an 18-day holiday break on Monday at the corruption trial of former Illinois House ...

After an extended holiday break, jurors are expected to return Monday to hear from more witnesses in Madigan’s defense.

Judge John Robert Blakey has reviewed jury instructions with federal prosecutors and defense attorneys at the corruption ...

The U.S. Supreme Court zeroed in on that very question when it heard oral arguments last April in the corruption case against ...

They are at it again, moving toward “fixing” what’s said to be a problem without the needed facts or analysis.

Flanked by attorneys, Illinois’ former House Speaker Michael Madigan walks out of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in January ...

Attorneys are expected to discuss jury instructions Thursday at the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker ...

Lawyers for former House Speaker Michael Madigan want the jury in his corruption trial to see evidence that then-Ald. Daniel ...

Unless Michael Madigan shocks the Illinois political world and testifies at his own federal corruption trial, the only thing the jury will have heard from him when it soon comes time to decide his ...