Jury deliberations are approaching the one-week mark at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan ...

Defense attorney Patrick Cotter made the comment in the midst of his nearly five-hour closing argument Tuesday in the corruption trial of Michael Madigan and Michael McClain. Jurors are expected to ...

Jury deliberations are expected to begin Wednesday after the prosecution’s rebuttal case at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael ...

McClain attorney Patrick Cotter said that lobbyists are educators and advocates who build relationships based on hope an elected official might act. In contrast, Cotter said, bribery involves an ...

Lobbying and politics,” McClain attorney Patrick Cotter said in his closing remarks, adding: “Lobbying and politics is not a crime.” McClain, an experienced lobbyist who was close to Madigan ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's defense team began their final presentation to the jury just after lunch Friday, ...

The Michael Madigan jury has ended its third day of deliberations without a verdict in Illinois’ highest-stakes public ...

Nearly four months after they were first called to Chicago’s federal courthouse, jurors have begun deliberating in the most ...

The jury of eight women and four men resumed deliberations at 9 a.m. and left the courthouse at 4:40 p.m., putting their ...

State Rep. Bob Rita had famously testified in the 2023 “ComEd Four” trial that his former boss Madigan ruled the House ...

Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago.