CHICAGO – Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, ...

Michael Madigan, once the state of Illinois’ most powerful politician during his decades-long run as Illinois House Speaker ...

Government attorneys say the corruption conviction Wednesday of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was historic.

The caseload is piling up and a new administration in Washington means fresh demands for federal prosecutors here in Chicago ...

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an upfront and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.

A former Freeborn & Peters LLP lawyer accused of a scheme to defraud his client’s creditors was found not guilty at his ...

It appears to be the first Justice Department lawsuit against local officials for allegedly interfering with the Trump ...

the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois is at a critical juncture. If walls could talk, those that line Chicago's Dirksen Federal Building could tell the tales of ...

The decade-long FBI investigation that led to Madigan’s trial roiled local politics and changed the course of Illinois ...

A Downers Grove man has been charged with threatening to “blow up” state Rep. Anne Stava Murray in a phone message he ...

Investigators say a retailer of allegedly stolen goods in Manhattan was working with a crew alleged to be behind a Dec. 9 ...

The Department of Justice has ordered the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dismissed, according to a department official.