For five weeks, federal prosecutors methodically built their case that then-House Speaker Michael Madigan engaged in a yearslong conspiracy to accept bribes from Commonwealth Edison in exchange for helping the utility giant’s legislative agenda in Springfield.

When Danny Solis finally stepped into the well of a federal courtroom Thursday, he made a sharp turn toward the jury box and then another toward the witness stand that had been waiting for him for more than eight years. The path he chose kept him as far as ...

It’s been a month since the jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial last heard the name of star government witness Danny Solis during opening statements.

The Dirksen Federal Courthouse is pictured in Chicago, where the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan just wrapped its fourth week of testimony with the appearance of Chicago alderman-turned-FBI mole Danny Solis,