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.

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 ...

And can President Trump find no one with a clean record to represent Americans as ambassadors? Crime pays, it seems, in Trump ...

Johnson's ominous warning before a church audience Monday night has fueled speculation about a high-level political purge as ...

Federal prosecutors have made it clear they are listening to phone calls. But have the threats of federal investigations and ...

Some residents were afraid to go outside last week. Now, the community “needs to stand up for each other,” one protester said ...

Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie ...

Blagojevich, who appeared on Trump's reality TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice," was convicted on political corruption charges ...

The ex-governor said he and the president were victims of 'lawfare' and didn't address rumors that he's being considered for ...

Dozens of states have a general sales tax. In Illinois, the tax covers consumer goods, but not services. That's a mistake, ...

The federal lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local authorities from cooperating with the deportation effort are “exacerbating” a ...

A former federal official from the Chicago area who has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development explains why President Trump's foreign aid cuts hurt people around the globe and ...