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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Week two of deliberations in the trial of the so-called "ComEd Four" began Monday at the Dirksen Federal Building. The defendants are accused of trying to bribe former Illinois House ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan reported to a West Virginia federal prison on Monday to begin his 7 ½-year sentence for public corruption - nearly 600 miles away from his native Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan began serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence Monday after being found guilty by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy, wire ...

CHICAGO (CNI) — With 10 days until former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is scheduled ... but it affirms the decision from Madigan’s trial judge in August, who wrote that the ex-speaker’s ...

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Dick Simpson, Political Science Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and former Chicago Alderman (1971-1979), joins Lisa Dent to discuss his time as an expert witness in the Michael Madigan ...

(The Center Square) – One day before the Illinois General Assembly’s fall veto session is scheduled to begin, one of the most powerful lawmakers in state history is headed to prison. Michael J.

One of the most powerful lawmakers in Illinois' history begins his federal prison term Monday. Michael Madigan, a Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — In just one day, former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan will report to prison to begin serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence. The longtime political figure was ...

CHICAGO — With 10 days until former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is scheduled to report to federal prison, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied the longtime Democratic power ...

One of the most powerful lawmakers in Illinois' history begins his federal prison term Monday. Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat who holds the title of the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S.