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

The search for Chicago’s 42nd U.S. attorney comes at a significant moment in history for an office long extolled as a model ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case involving former House Speaker Michael ...

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

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