Philadelphia authorities are investigating a double shooting that happened Friday outside the parade where up to 1 million ...

The Deep-Blue County Defying the Nation’s Rightward Turn Mike Madigan Is Finally Gone ... and it has been an official federal holiday since 1879. Congress, in the 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act, ...

Herbert and Alvena Ruh met on a blind date at the Blue Moon dance hall in Elgin back in 1952 and have been tripping the light ...

After more than three months, dozens of witnesses and hundreds of audio recordings, the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is now in the hands of a jury. Deliberations are now ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share When Michael J. Madigan’s longtime friend penned a retirement letter in 2016, he compared the record-breaking Illinois House speaker to Chicago’s famous ...

(The Center Square) – Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert Blakey handed the case to the jury ...

Anthony Vazquez and Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share The long relationship between Michael J. Madigan and Michael McClain played a central role in multiple corruption trials over the last few years in ...

It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing checkers ...

A jury has delivered a split verdict against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, finding him guilty on 10 of 23 criminal counts in his case. The jury also found Madigan not guilty on ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The jury resumed deliberations on Friday in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal bribery and racketeering trial. The jury started deliberating 14-and-a-half ...

Madigan also chaired the Democratic Party of Illinois from 1998 to 2021. McClain was a longtime lobbyist who previously served as a state representative in Illinois’ 48th district from 1973 to 1982.