That notorious criminal Paul La Schiazza got the sweetheart deal of the century this week in Chicago federal court.

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

CHICAGO — Former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza, who had been accused of bribing then-Illinois House Speaker ...

In the time since Michael Madigan was indicted, no substantive ethics bills have been debated in either chamber of the state ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun serving his 7 ½-year prison sentence Monday after reporting to a West ...

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

A former AT&T executive accused of bribing then-House Speaker Michael Madigan entered into a deferred prosecution agreement ...

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

As his predecessor’s scheduled 7.5-year prison term for public corruption begins, the speaker of the Illinois House is not ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is scheduled to report to federal prison today to begin serving a sentence of ...

Madigan’s surrender caps a massive corruption investigation that hearkens back to an earlier era at Chicago’s federal ...