Secretly recorded videos are backbone of corruption trial for longest-serving legislative leader
Hours of secretly recorded videos and phone calls have offered a rare glimpse into how the longest-serving legislative leader ...
U.S. Rep. to testify next at ex-Illinois House speaker’s corruption trial
U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski of Illinois is expected to testify Monday at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House ...
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Democrat congresswoman to testify next at ex-Illinois House speaker’s corruption trial
Rep. Nikki Budzinski has represented Illinois’ 13th congressional district since 2023 and previously worked for the Illinois governor.
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Mistakes by once all-powerful Michael Madigan exposed at trial
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan walks ... But that’s exactly how then-Ald. Daniel Solis assured then-House Speaker Michael Madigan in late June of 2017 that their mark — the ...
Speaker Sphinx? Sitting US congresswoman testifies about ex-Illinois Speaker Madigan’s odd Egyptian nickname
The jury in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial has heard many nicknames given to the powerful Democratic House Speaker, from ...
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Speaker Sphinx? Central Illinois congresswoman testifies about Madigan’s nickname
The jury in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial heard a new nickname for the powerful House Speaker: “Sphinx," according to ...
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Jurors hear Madigan ally McClain puzzling over political squabble hobbling Chinatown project: ‘There’s something fishy here’
Solis sought Madigan’s help having the land ... Andrew Madigan, second from left, with, from left, sisters former Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Nicole Madigan and mother, Shirley ...
Tom Homan swings hard at Illinois Dems
MAKING A SPLASH: Tom Homan took the stage in Chicago on Monday to George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone.” The incoming “border ...
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State contract raises questions about the future of paper mail in Illinois prisons
One prison reform group is worried the state is being “reactionary” in how it responds to a rise in drug use among incarcerated people.