Nearly 60 years after earning his law degree, imprisoned former House Speaker Michael Madigan was formally disbarred this ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan has been disbarred. The Illinois Supreme Court took Madigan off the list of people licensed to practice law on Wednesday. Madigan is now serving a 7 1/2-year ...

Nearly dix decades after becoming a lawyer, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been disbarred following his ...

The defense team for Michael Madigan rested its case Thursday as the months-long federal corruption trial enters one of its final legs.

CHICAGO — Michael J. Madigan stepped onto Illinois’ public stage as a young man in the late 1960s, when he was elected as one of 118 delegates to the state constitutional convention in Springfield. “I ...

A year after Will Cousineau took the stand as a government witness in the corruption trial of his ex-boss, former Illinois ...

CHICAGO -- A federal judge on Friday denied former Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan's legal arguments that he should remain out of prison while his appeal of both his corruption convictions and 7.5 ...

Michael Madigan, a former Illinois House speaker, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on June 13 for corruptly soliciting and receiving personal financial rewards for himself and his ...

Michael Madigan, once the nation’s longest-serving state legislative leader, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison on federal bribery and wire fraud convictions, thus bringing to a ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan arrives at Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for his post-trial sentencing hearing on June 13, 2025, in downtown Chicago. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune/TNS) ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the the Illinois Medical Debt Relief Program has erased nearly $430 million in medical debt during its first year. The fiscal year 2026 state budget includes a $15 million ...

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