Before the sun rose on a cold Wednesday morning in January 2019, Fidel Marquez agreed to a life-altering assignment as a ...

A motion to exclude evidence in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan has been denied.

scheming with utility giants ComEd and AT&T to put his cronies on contracts requiring little or no work and using his public ...

Madigan, McClain and AT&T were involved in a strikingly similar scheme, prosecutors said. AT&T had tried for years to get the legislature to pass a bill that would relieve the company from having ...

While Madigan himself was not accused of sexual misconduct, fallout from how a scandal was handled contributed to his loss of ...

Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual ...

Prosecutors played wiretapped calls Monday showing how those around former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's ousted ...

One of the U.S. government’s cooperating witnesses, former ComEd executive Fidel Marquez, has resumed direct testimony at the ...

Madigan attorney Todd Pugh called it a “purely personal situation” — unlike other allegations that people were paid by ComEd and AT&T Illinois to influence Madigan. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet ...

And on Tuesday, Marquez returned to the witness stand in the trial of Madigan and McClain, who are facing bribery and ...

In two of them, Madigan is accused of seeking and accepting bribes from ComEd and AT&T Illinois while the utilities were seeking favorable action from Madigan. Those allegations were central to ...

In June 2018, the day House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff had quit amid a burgeoning sexual harassment ...