President Trump said Thursday he was making Alice Johnson, whose sentence he commuted during his first term, his “pardon czar ...

Mike Madigan knew for a very long time that the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI badly wanted to put his head on a spike.

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is challenging Gov. JB Pritzker, a fellow Democrat, to use his bully pulpit to strengthen ...

Richard Grenell has already served as Trump’s man for the Balkans, while his son-in-law Jared Kushner has long been handling ...

Springfield’s Bill Cellini and Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, to name just two — Madigan couldn’t bear not being at the epicenter of power in Illinois or the idea of abandoning the questionable practices ...

Editorial written by Chicago Tribune Board. Back in early 2009, Chicago’s storied Second City comedy theater created a satirical musical spoof of a former governor of Illinois, “Rod Blagojevich, ...

Columnist Rich Miller gives his take on the outcome of Mike Madigan's federal trial, just as former Gov. Rod Blagojevich ...

The Trump administration is telling prosecutors and agents to care less on efforts to investigate foreign corruption, ...

Most folks just figured that Mike Madigan had avoided the long arm of federal law by being extra-careful. And he may have ...

We discuss the federal trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wrapping up and President Trump's decision to ...

Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison in Colorado in February 2020, 16 months after former President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois Gov. Nearly five years ...

The outcome in the trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan was a decidedly mixed bag — a sobering reflection of the ...