but a Madigan conviction would certainly underscore it. “If not now, when? Why not?” asked Connie Mixon, an Elmhurst University political science professor who testified as an expert for ...

While holding hands with his daughters Nicole (left) and Tiffany, Illinois’ former House Speaker Michael Madigan walks out of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after jurors found Madigan guilty of ...

The earth didn’t shake this week when former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted on corruption charges. But it could have. Perhaps it should have. This was Illinois political ...

Federal investigators, sniffing around the target-rich environment for corruption that is Illinois, were keen to bag the biggest game of all: Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Well ...

Madigan, who was known for operating off-the-books, steering clear of the press, and rarely having a cellphone, sent shockwaves with his choice to testify in his own defense. His co-defendant ...

Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images/Bill Clark/Zuma Press/J. Scott Applewhite/AP Michael Madigan, the longest-serving state House speaker in Illinois history, was found guilty ...

Former all-powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted on corruption charges the next. Call it business as usual on steroids in the Land of Lincoln. There is, however ...

CHICAGO — The Michael Madigan jury has ended its third day of deliberations without a verdict in Illinois’ highest-stakes public corruption trial in years. The jury of eight women and four men ...

Illinois corruption takes center stage as Michael Madigan is convicted of bribery and Rod Blagojevich gets a pardon. Plus, why a project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes is on hold.

Adam Weiner, the frontman for the popular Philly rock and soul band Low Cut Connie, announced this week he has cancelled a March 19 concert at the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump’s ...