John Hooker is the first of four former ComEd officials set to be sentenced in the coming weeks. Prosecutors say he, like ...

The feds asked a judge to give John Hooker, a former ComEd exec, a prison sentence of 56 months following his conviction on ...

On cross-examination, Marquez, who pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy and is awaiting sentencing, acknowledged that there ...

Federal prosecutors are seeking nearly five years in prison for John Hooker, a ComEd lobbyist convicted in the Madigan-linked ...

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...

Jurors also deadlocked on all six counts related to Madigan's co-defendant, Michael McClain. The verdict capped one of the most significant political corruption investigations in Chicago's sordid ...

Explaining the breadth of the alleged Madigan enterprise, Bhachu recounted how McClain secretly arranged, allegedly with Madigan’s knowledge, for longtime speaker’s aide Kevin Quinn to receive ...

Trying to keep straight the near-manic plotting of Madigan and his one-time right-hand man, former close friend and co-defendant Michael McClain between 2011 and 2019 — the period on which the ...

Former House Speaker Michael Madigan will learn his fate Friday during a sentencing hearing following his February conviction on corruption charges.

After former House Speaker Michael Madigan was sentenced to prison, The Chicago Tribune issued a plaintive cry for a new day ...

When Michael McClain retired from lobbying in 2015, he told then-House Speaker Madigan he was "at the bridge with my musket standing with and for the Madigan family." ...

The government hopes to prove that wiretaps and undercover videos incriminate Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain. Taking the stand Thursday, FBI agent Ryan McDonald vouched for the blizzard ...