Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan stands next to his defense attorney as a protester follows outside the federal court ...

(The Center Square) – One year after a federal jury convicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan of bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud and use of a facility to promote unlawful activity, a ...

More than seven years after he agreed to become an FBI mole, former ComEd executive Fidel Marquez was sentenced to two years of probation Thursday for his role in a massive bribery conspiracy to ...

Lawyers heaped praise upon former ComEd Vice President Fidel Marquez on Thursday, saying he even deserved to be known as a ...

Sentencing for Fidel Marquez, former Com-Ed executive who cooperated with the federal government in its investigation into the Com-Ed Four and former House Speaker Mike Madigan ...

Illinois’ finances were “one hot mess,” as Comptroller Susana Mendoza put it, the last time voters went to the polls to elect the state’s chief fiscal officer. Bills went unpaid.

Fidel Marquez may not have been the architect of the vast ComEd bribery scheme that brought down former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan. But the utility executive still sensed the moral ...

Feb. 26—The 2014 federal corruption case of former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack offered a tutorial for persons unfamiliar with such legal processes. A decision in February of that year convicted Mack on ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 2, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL OTHER NEWS, CONVICTED KILLER AND FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PITCHER DAN SERAFINI WILL NOT BE GETTING A NEW TRIAL. THE 52 YEAR OLD HAD BEEN PUSHING FOR THAT, ...