History often is complex and resistant to simple narratives. So are people. So it is a needlessly divisive mistake for DuPage ...

The investigation that led to Michael Madigan’s indictment changed the course of Chicago history. It also prompted a historic ...

The big picture: Fifty cast members and writers from Second City have been hired at "SNL." Plus, a handful more did comedy ...

The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling songwriter was convicted in 2021 in Brooklyn federal court of multiple charges, ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the state’s most powerful politician during his nearly four-decade reign, was ...

A federal jury Wednesday convicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the most powerful person in Illinois politics, of bribery conspiracy charges in a wide-ranging case alleging he ran his ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in an appeal from former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, who claims he was wrongly convicted of lying to bank regulators even though his statements were ...

The case concerned Patrick Daley Thompson, a former Chicago alderman who is the grandson of one former mayor, Richard J. Daley, and the nephew of another, Richard M. Daley. He conceded that he had ...

Thompson is the grandson of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley and the nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley. He was elected to represent the 11th Ward in the City Council in 2015 and re-elected in ...

Thompson – who is the grandson of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley and the nephew of former mayor Richard M. Daley – was indicted in 2020 on charges that he had violated a federal law that makes ...

Thompson attended the argument Tuesday. He is the grandson of Chicago’s late Mayor Richard J. Daley (D) and the nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley (D), the city’s two longest-serving mayors.