Veteran Chicago lawyer and former federal prosecutor Andrew Boutros is expected to be appointed by the Trump administration as interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, sources t…
Federal charges were unsealed Monday against a suburban Chicago businessman accused of using phony documents and forged signatures to create false immigration narratives for clients seeking asylum …
Robert “Bobby” Dominic, 71, a longtime associate of the Outfit’s Grand Avenue crew known for his connections to Richard’s Bar, was charged in a five-count indictment made public T…
The outcome of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption trial will be watched closely well beyond the federal courthouse, with the verdict representing a potential make-or-b…
A former high-ranking director in then-Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios’ office has been charged with accepting sports tickets, restaurant meals and other bribes from a lawyer in exchange …
After 30 days of testimony over three months, prosecutors rested their case in chief Wednesday in the blockbuster public corruption trial of Michael Madigan, formerly the immensely powerful speaker…
Unless Michael Madigan shocks the Illinois political world and testifies at his own federal corruption trial, the only thing the jury will have heard from him when it soon comes time to decide his …
President Joe Biden on Thursday commuted the sentences of two of the Chicago area’s most notorious fraudsters: former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell and Eric Bloom, the onetime leader of a …
Then-powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan was intimately involved in the process of recommending people to sit on state boards and commissions and kept a running list that eventually totaled 91 n…