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

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

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

In Illinois, the line between legal politics and bribery has always seemed a blurry one. Through the years, it’s been debated ...

Just hours after hearing oral arguments, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals directed the government ...

Madigan corruption appeal to begin Thursday Oral arguments are scheduled to begin Thursday afternoon in former Illinois House ...

In the wake of new legal proceedings in a high-profile Illinois corruption case, attempts to reform ethics requirements for ...

Attorneys for Madigan and the federal government presented their arguments before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals during ...

A plea for freedom Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was back in court last week — figuratively, but not ...

A federal appeals court heard oral arguments Thursday as judges consider former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s ...

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 ...