The number of years former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan spent in Springfield has often been used as shorthand to ...

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 million for crimes committed during ...

Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, was convicted of trading legislation for the ...

Federal prosecutors have asked for a lengthy 12 1/2-year prison term and a $1.5 ... sofa with family photos behind ... since the government asked for 15 to 20 years behind bars for Blagojevich.

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

R. Kelly‘s defense team dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, making an urgent plea to President Trump for the singer’s release ...

Trump’s immigration crackdown, his extrajudicial disappearances of students based on their beliefs, and his invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act—which asserts that the country is being invaded by ...

Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis has vetoed a bill that would ban surprise billing by ambulance companies, over the unanimous objections of both chambers of the state legislature.

President Donald Trump has handed out a flurry of pardons in recent weeks, including some to his political and financial ...

He faces up to 20 years on some of these charges, 10 5 years and other ones and we'll see a prison sentence he actually gets if he is sentenced to prison. But >> that's absolutely a win for them.

Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pardoning Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who ...