Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is set to report to prison on Monday to begin serving a ...

The 83-year-old former speaker will be pushing 90 by the time his sentence is through, unless he wins on appeal.

Dick Simpson, Political Science Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and former Chicago Alderman (1971-1979), ...

Michael Madigan — long the most powerful politician in Illinois during his decades as the state’s House speaker — has ...

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

Former Illinois House speaker scheduled to begin 7½-year sentence Oct. 13 CHICAGO — With 10 days until former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is scheduled to report to federal prison, the 7th ...

The man who led the Illinois House and state Democratic party for nearly half a century is starting his next chapter as a federal prisoner. Madigan will serve 90 months behind bars, but the Velvet ...

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The deferred-prosecution deal scuttles a retrial that had been set for January. It also came on Madigan’s first full day in ...