Willie Wilson: President Donald Trump is eroding decades of civil rights progress
Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...
Chicago Tribune5d
Madigan jury ends third day of deliberations without verdict
The Michael Madigan jury has ended its third day of deliberations without a verdict in Illinois’ highest-stakes public corruption trial in years. The jury of eight women and four men began ...
Washington Examiner6d
Madigan case: Jury to decide fate of alleged ‘Grand Masters of Corruption’
(The Center Square) – Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert Blakey handed the case to the jury ...
Chicago Sun-Times6d
Jurors begin deliberating after prosecutor argues Madigan 'lost his way, he was blinded by profit'
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share When Michael J. Madigan’s longtime friend penned a retirement letter in 2016, he compared the record-breaking Illinois House speaker to Chicago’s famous ...
Daily Herald6d
Michael Madigan's fate now rests with jury
It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing checkers ...
ABC 7 Chicago4d
Mike Madigan trial live updates: Jury enters 3rd day of deliberations in corruption trial
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The jury resumed deliberations on Friday in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal bribery and racketeering trial. The jury started deliberating 14-and-a-half ...
The Pantagraph3d
Madigan defense attempts to chip away at bribery allegations as closing arguments continue
An attorney for Michael Madigan on Monday repeatedly denied that the ex-House speaker ever thought utility giant ComEd was bribing him, and painted co-defendant Michael McClain as an exaggerator ...
Herald & Review6d
Madigan ‘was not confused’ taking part in alleged bribery scheme, prosecutor says with jury on verge of deliberating
Early in their final pitch to jurors on Wednesday, prosecutors displayed a screenshot from an undercover video: Michael Madigan, then the powerful speaker of the Illinois House, leaning forward ...
ABC 7 Chicago6d
Mike Madigan trial live updates: Madigan's fate now in hands of the jury in corruption trial
CHICAGO (WLS) -- 14-and-a-half weeks after the jury was first seated in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal bribery and racketeering trial, his fate, and that of his co ...
WBEZ5d
Hear some key secret recordings prosecutors played during Michael Madigan’s corruption trial
The epic federal racketeering conspiracy trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain is finally before the jury. To get to this stage, prosecutors ...
Quincy Herald-Whig6d
Prosecutor calls Madigan, McClain ‘grand masters of corruption’ as case goes to jury
CHICAGO — It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing ...