Increased costs – from higher Medicaid, K-12 education and pension costs – could negate potential positives from adding ...

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

Rep. Dan Swanson, R-Alpha, received the call from Democratic House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, earlier this ...

Trump’s swearing-in lands on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday celebrating the civil rights icon always held ...

Tom Homan, Trump’s pick to lead immigration enforcement, told Chicago supporters last month that mass deportations would “start right here in Chicago, Illinois.” Congressional Republicans ...

Prosecutors deliver closing arguments in Michael Madigan's corruption trial, accusing him of leading a criminal enterprise.

Thank God we live in Illinois because, we’re already Trump-proof,” Welch told the Sun-Times. “We did a lot of the hard work ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has returned to the witness stand for additional cross-examination at the ...

Madigan, 82, and his co-defendant, political ally and confidant Michael McClain, are accused of running a criminal enterprise ...