The Republican president signed the pardon on Monday and called the Democratic former governor “a very fine person” who “was ...

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A third of the Baltimore City Council has expressed support for or openness to reforming the Board of Estimates, potentially reducing the mayor’s power over city spending. “It’s a challenge ...

(The Center Square) – Michael Madigan’s defense team has begun closing arguments at the former Illinois House speaker’s corruption trial in Chicago. Madigan attorney Dan Collins ... Mike is not about ...

Michael Madigan was so important to ComEd’s legislative agenda in Springfield that the utility was willing to bend over backwards to make the then-powerful House speaker happy, showering his cronies ...

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The council would also have the power to remove the county's top attorney. Council Chair Rita Heard Days, a Democrat from North County, said councilmembers need to have that power. They've been ...

After 11 weeks of testimony and 150 witnesses, closing arguments are underway in the corruption trial of former Illinois ... words: power and profit. What we know: Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leah Belaire Foley has been appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts by Acting Attorney General James McHenry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ ...

CHICAGO — Ex-House speaker Michael Madigan, formerly the most powerful man in Illinois politics ... abused the tremendous power he wielded,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Julia Schwartz told ...