After a pair of Supreme Court rulings on central issues like bribery and false statements, followed by a lightning-quick ...

Is the long-running Commonwealth Edison bribery case that brought down former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan about to go up in smoke? That's one thought that comes to mind after a ...

Barbara Flynn Currie, a 40-year veteran of the Illinois House and the first woman to serve as the second-in-command majority ...

What constitutes felonious political corruption? We need to find out after the successful “ComEd Four” appeals.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed its own previous ruling and granted Pramaggiore and McClain bail pending a new ...

CHICAGO ( WGN) – Two members of the so-called “ComEd Four” have been released from federal custody and granted a new trial.

The new team includes former solicitors general for the U.S. and the state of Illinois, and another attorney who has represented Hillary Clinton and former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Arguments are ...

The decision comes nearly three years after their convictions on charges that involved what prosecutors called a bribery ...

The 40-minute argument on the 27th floor of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse drew members of Madigan’s family, including former ...

A lawyer for imprisoned House Speaker Michael Madigan told a federal appeals court on Thursday his conviction on an array of ...

An appeals court has ordered the release on bail of two convicted members of the so-called ComEd Four, a spokesperson said.

As former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan approaches six months in a West Virginia federal prison, the high-profile ...