Being the longtime friend of longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan granted Mike McClain certain privileges not afforded to other...

Facing a perceived betrayal during a make-or-break election season in 2018, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called the person...

In fall 2018, longtime former State Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, received a phone call from Mike McClain, who had spent...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan isn’t set to go on trial for racketeering and corruption charges until next summer,...

One year ago today, former House Speaker Michael Madigan – for decades the most powerful figure in Illinois politics –...

Illinois Supreme Court rulings strengthen the state's biometric privacy law, fueling a heated debate between privacy advocates and business leaders.

Even factoring in the possibility of a “mild recession” this year, the proposed budget Gov. JB Pritzker laid out on...

A coalition of advocacy and labor groups is pushing for a state law to give Illinois workers 26 weeks of...

People who’ve been subject to fingerprinting, face or retinal scans as either employees or customers of Illinois companies have five...

Exactly 38 months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Illinois will no longer be under a...