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

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

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

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

(The Center Square) – An Illinois congressman is urging lawmakers to extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. Many ...

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 ...

Final arguments are underway in the high-profile corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

The defense rested its case in former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's bribery and corruption trial on Thursday.

A bill introduced in the Indiana legislature by its Republican House speaker would create a commission to embrace 33 Illinois ...

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