Sentencing is scheduled Monday for former ComEd Chief Executive Officer Anne Pramaggiore, who was convicted of corruption in ...

Prosecutors also said she falsified company records in the scheme to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. They want her to serve a 70-month sentence and pay a fine of nearly $2 million ...

Illinois lawmakers, use your power to rein in political corruption The people deserve government that works for them, not for political insiders.

Government attorneys are wrapping up their case with a focus on AT&T and former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo, D-Chicago, at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and ...

Major shakeups are coming to Illinois politics in the next two years. Behind closed doors, Cook County Democrats Friday voted ...

Illinois gave the U.S. Lincoln, Reagan and Obama, but it's better known for a more notorious political legacy: constant and persistent corruption.

Connie Mixon, professor of political science and director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University, said it is frustrating that Illinois is home to one corruption case after another.

As sentencing proceeds for four people convicted in the ComEd Four trial, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan plans ...

The former Illinois House speaker is asking that he be allowed to stay out of prison during his appeal in the federal bribery ...

On the same day one of his co-defendants was sentenced to prison, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan asked a federal judge to permit him to remain free until his case has been reviewed by a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WSIL) -- The former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was sentenced on June 13, on federal corruption charges. He was also given a $2.5 million fine.