Michael Madigan may have earned the nickname “Sphinx” in his record-breaking run as Illinois House Speaker, but the jury in his corruption trial has been every bit as hard to read. The eight-woman, ...

"The Whole World Is a Mystery" at the Carnegie Museum of Art marks the first retrospective look at Gertrude Abercrombie in ...

Too many people can't afford the high out-of-pocket costs for mental health care. A proposal in the Legislature aims to fix that, two lawmakers with backgrounds in social work write.

Johnson's ominous warning before a church audience Monday night has fueled speculation about a high-level political purge as the struggling rookie mayor approaches the mid-term benchmark.

Plans to turn the Harley Clarke Mansion on Evanston's lakefront into a boutique hotel and event venue took a step forward ...

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted on 18 ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois who served eight years in federal prison. Birth name: Rod Blagojevich (has no middle name, uses the initial R to ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Jurors on Tuesday are set to return for their 10th day of deliberations in the marathon corruption trial of ex-speaker Michael Madigan. Deliberations began the afternoon of Jan. 29 and as of Monday ...

President Trump plans to try to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Most school funding is local, as are policy ...

As the jury in the corruption trial of the United States versus Michael Madigan and Michael McClain enters its second week of ...