Tim Mapes Trial

Newly published letters show judges, former elected officials and political heavyweights went to bat for the former top aide of ...

Judge tells Mapes his ‘loyalty was greatly misguided’ in lying to grand jury investigating former speaker

A federal jury has convicted the once-top aide to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, finding Tim Mapes guilty on ...

In more than two weeks of his obstruction of justice and perjury trial, one fact about the longtime chief of ...

In the fall of 2018, then-state Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, thought he might have been in line for a big ...

Nearly six months after former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was forced to fire his longtime chief of staff, those ...

After the FBI raided his western Illinois home in May 2019, Mike McClain – an influential lobbyist and close confidant ...

Longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was elevated to that powerful position in 1983 – the same year Motorola launched ...

Taking occasional notes – a habit hard-wired after more than 25 years as Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s chief of ...

In the summer of 2018, Tim Mapes’ name had only recently faded from unflattering headlines after he was forced to ...