The 15-term Congressman, who put the house up for sale on his 78th birthday in November, sold it for $795,000.

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan returned to the witness stand Monday afternoon in his federal corruption trial.

Late in the day, the prosecution of Madigan's corruption trial highlighted an apparent contradiction in Madigan's direct ...

Prosecutors are taking aim at Michael Madigan’s previous statements at the former Illinois House speaker’s bribery and ...

Emmett Ellis was born in rural Louisiana in 1933 and grew up picking cotton on his family’s farm. He found an escape from ...

For nearly three months, government lawyers in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial have ...

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act is named after a the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was killed ... Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush, who co-sponsored the legislation, said he was "pleased that ...

Knowledge of unlawfulness is one of the issues that Judge John Robert Blakey expects to clarify when he prepares jury instructions at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speake ...