Early in their final pitch to jurors on Wednesday, prosecutors displayed a screenshot from an undercover video: Michael Madigan, then the powerful speaker of the Illinois House, leaning forward ...

An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan Arrives to Courthouse Monday January 27th Of the indictment’s 23 corruption-related charges against Madigan, Collins said 16 of them were based on ...

CHICAGO — As former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s defense lawyers began their closing arguments last week, attorney Dan Collins pointed to something the former speaker said when he ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan continues. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...

(The Center Square) – Michael Madigan’s defense team has resumed closing arguments at the former Illinois House speaker’s corruption trial in Chicago. “Job recommendations without more ...

Prosecutors in the historic corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan on Wednesday attacked the credibility of the defense’s star witness: Madigan himself. “What you heard on the ...

After more than three months, dozens of witnesses and hundreds of audio recordings, the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan will soon be in the hands of a jury. Closing arguments ...

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Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of bribery, racketeering and official misconduct in a trial that began with jury selection on Oct. 8. Chicago attorney Sam ...

Mike Madigan, “a young 82” by his own testimony, told jurors that while people had often come to him for help during his nearly four decades as the powerful Speaker of the Illinois House of ...