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

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

the late Richard J. Daley. Michael McClain wrote that “Illinois is a great state because of your hand on the rudder, and you know instinctively now, just like Richard J. Daley, when to start, slow or ...

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

Convicting Michael Madigan is a victory for federal prosecutors that few would have predicted when the former Illinois House speaker was at the peak of his power. Now it's time for lawmakers to be ...

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an upfront and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The decade-long FBI investigation that led to Madigan’s trial roiled local politics and changed the course of Illinois ...

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 ...