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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Months after the jury was first seated in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal bribery ...

CHICAGO — Deliberations in the Michael Madigan political corruption trial continued for a sixth day, though there was no ...

With allegations of corruption at the highest levels of state government, the racketeering trial of former Democratic House ...

Madigan’s former executive assistant, Mika Baugher, testified last month that McClain would often wait in a conference room next to the speaker’s office at the Illinois Capitol. Baugher said ...

Jurors will have to consider 23 counts against Madigan alleging an array of schemes ... Within half an hour of being sent back to the jury room, the jurors sent U.S. District Judge John Robert ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Madigan served in the Illinois House from 1971 to 2021 and was speaker for all but two years between 1983 and 2021. He chaired the Democratic Party of Illinois for 23 years.