But suppose Madigan hadn’t been allowed to spend most of his life in the state House. Suppose he’d been limited to 12 years ...

When Patti Blagojevich made repeated public pleas for her husband's release from federal prison, there was no mistaking her intended audience: President Donald Trump.

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For months, former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has praised President Donald Trump. He has explicitly echoed Trump’s ...

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CHICAGO — Michael J. Madigan stepped onto Illinois’ public stage as a young man in the late 1960s, when he was elected as one ...

A federal judge sentenced Michael Madigan Friday to seven-and-a-half years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of $2. 5 ...

As a resident of Astor Street in the Gold Coast, she was an unlikely figure to be a courtroom artist, but her sketches ...

Michael Madigan, once the most powerful politician in Illinois, was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal prison and ...

Rod Blagojevich (top, center) in an Andy Austin courtroom sketch ... an associate told Ms. Austin outside the courtroom, “Jeff say: You draw his wife, he break your legs.” She did not draw his wife.

The judge who sentenced Michael Madigan to 7 1/2 years in prison said the former Illinois House speaker's testimony was “a ...