The jury began their first full day of deliberations on Thursday - 14-and-a-half weeks after being seated in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal bribery and racketeering trial.

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 shortly after 3 p.m.

The jury now has the case in the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge ...

It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while ...

Jurors heard almost 150 secret recordings in Madigan’s trial, including phone calls with co-defendant Michael McClain and conversations with government mole Danny Solis.

As ComEd’s lead external lobbyist for years, McClain took Madigan’s job recommendations and referred them to leaders at the ...

Michael Madigan’s defense team rested Thursday, nearly three months after opening statements and testimony began in the ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s fate is officially in the hands of a federal jury after week-long closing ...

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Gov. JB Pritzker and a handful of fellow Democratic governors conferred with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last night, urging him to get his caucus in line to push back at ...

Early in their final pitch to jurors on Wednesday, prosecutors displayed a screenshot from an undercover video: Michael ...

Jurors hearing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s trial were scheduled to begin deliberations Wednesday ...