Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Michael J. Madigan’s attorneys tried again Tuesday to distance the former Illinois House speaker from a longtime friend and confidant, pressing ComEd’s onetime ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...

ComEd once found its fate tied so crucially to the Illinois Legislature dominated by Michael J. Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share ComEd once found its fate tied so crucially to the Illinois Legislature dominated by Michael J. Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly ...

Prosecutors walked the jury through energy legislation on Monday with a former utility attorney on the witness stand to illustrate the importance of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan ...

Thomas O'Neill, the former general counsel at powerful Illinois electrical utility CommonWealth Edison, testified Oct. 28 that his lobbying efforts aimed at former Illinois House Speaker Michael ...

CHICAGO - The second week of the criminal trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan got underway Monday, as federal prosecutors continue to build their case that Madigan traded his ...

Damon Cheronis, Managing Partner at Cheronis & Parente LLC, joins Lisa Dent to talk about former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan’s corruption trial. As the trial continues, ‘politics as ...

In 2011, as Thomas O’Neill was in Springfield pushing for legislation on behalf of utility giant ComEd, he heard one question over and over: What did Michael Madigan think of the bill?