Precisely one month from the history-making moment former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of corruption, ...

A corruption-busting prosecutor with a 20-year track record of winning major cases will step down from his job with the ...

Legislation in the Illinois House would empower inspectors general, restrict lobbying by elected leaders, add protections ...

Federal food bank funding The Trump administration has stopped reimbursing Illinois for a program designed to help farmers ...

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah left intact the conspiracy conviction and other counts against the four defendants, convicted ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted on 10 counts of corruption last month, including four counts ...

The lead federal prosecutor in the corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is stepping down.

The judge's decision leaves intact a handful of other counts against former Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain and three ...

Chicago’s top federal prosecutor for public corruption has submitted his resignation effective March 14, a spokesman for the ...

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah tossed four of the nine counts on which the “ComEd Four” were convicted, agreeing with ...

A Florida lawmaker can serve up to eight consecutive years in the state House or Senate, but there are loopholes.