Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed cuts to the police department in specific areas may violate a consent decree forged ...

The former chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison has spent the last week telling a federal jury how he bent ...

A consent decree is one of the federal government’s most aggressive tools for reining in police departments found to be ...

Attorney General Lisa Madigan highlighted new laws initiated by her office that will go into effect Jan. 1. In 2016 Illinois will become the fourth state to explicitly allow electronic monitoring ...

Madigan’s daughter, Lisa Madigan, was Illinois attorney general at the time. Lisa Madigan was in the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for the first day of opening arguments for the trial involving her father.

For example, when ComEd was trying to kill a 2018 effort by then-Attorney General Lisa Madigan, McClain got the speaker’s ...

Led by the prosecutor questioning him, ComEd exec-turned-cooperating witness Fidel Marquez repeatedly said he and other utility leaders agreed to hire or contract with the powerful speaker’s allies in ...

Several of his family members attended and sat in the front row, including his daughter, Lisa Madigan, who served four terms as Illinois attorney general. She declined to seek re-election in 2018.

Jurors in Michael Madigan's federal racketeering conspiracy trial on Tuesday heard the saga of Juan Ochoa, who Madigan pushed ...

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told reporters. "I don't think this is a serious nomination for attorney general. We need to have a serious attorney general." Senate Republican conference Chair John ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...