In June 2018, the day House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff had quit amid a burgeoning sexual harassment ...

In June 2018, the day House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff had quit amid a burgeoning sexual harassment scandal, two of Madigan’s top deputies had a frank conversation about trying ...

The feds' start witness, Fidel Marquez, is on the stand in former House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial.

And on Tuesday, Marquez returned to the witness stand in the trial of Madigan and McClain, who are facing bribery and ...

But this was the first time Lang testified with his old boss in the room. Early on in his two hours on the stand, Lang was asked to look around the courtroom and identify Madigan. “He’s waving ...

Former House Speaker Michael Madigan may have spent decades at the pinnacle of Illinois politics, but at his core he was simply a soft-spoken, nonconfrontational Southwest Side guy trying to ...

As chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, Fidel Marquez had an expansive role that put him in charge of “approximately 130, 135 people.” But in June 2013, more than a year into that ...

A lawyer for former House Speaker Michael Madigan told jurors at the outset of his corruption trial that the Democratic powerhouse was “completely ignorant” of what people were saying behind his back ...

Marquez’s direct boss, ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, had forwarded an email from the utility’s top contract lobbyist, Mike McClain, requesting someone named Ed Moody be moved off of his ...

two of Madigan’s top deputies had a frank conversation about trying to save their boss. “It’s time to get a real PR firm in here…somebody who’s dealt with real (expletive ...