Chicago businessman Juan Ochoa had heard little more than crickets in the six months since then-Illinois House Speaker ...

The former chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison has spent the last week telling a federal jury how he bent ...

With nearly half a million dollars of state funding, a new electric vehicle charging station opened in Joliet on Monday. It ...

The Madigan allies were paid through trusted lobbyists, including longtime Madigan staffer Shaw Decremer, former Democratic ...

Prosecutors on Monday took the jury in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan through nearly a decade of payments to subcontractors who they allege did little or no work ...

Jurors watched as Madigan associate Jay Doherty's lobbying contract with Illinois electric utility Commonwealth Edison grew ...

Popular Chicago historian Shermann Dilla Thomas had a six-figure day job at ComEd; then he took the CEO's suggestion and ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan for years reveled in his reputation as the all-powerful man behind the throne. He, according to legend, played chess while others played checkers. He ...

Fidel Marquez agreed to a life-altering assignment as a cooperating witness in a criminal case the government was building ...

And for the last month, the “ComEd Four” case has been reprised as part of Madigan’s bribery and racketeering trial at the ...