Mike Madigan knew for a very long time that the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI badly wanted to put his head on a spike.

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is challenging Gov. JB Pritzker, a fellow Democrat, to use his bully pulpit to strengthen ...

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday challenged Gov. JB Pritzker, a fellow Democrat, to use his bully pulpit to strengthen Illinois’ weak ethics laws, saying a “top-to-bottom overhaul” is ...

Springfield’s Bill Cellini and Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, to name just two — Madigan couldn’t bear not being at the epicenter of power in Illinois or the idea of abandoning the questionable practices ...

Editorial written by Chicago Tribune Board. Back in early 2009, Chicago’s storied Second City comedy theater created a satirical musical spoof of a former governor of Illinois, “Rod Blagojevich, ...

Columnist Rich Miller gives his take on the outcome of Mike Madigan's federal trial, just as former Gov. Rod Blagojevich ...

The Trump administration is telling prosecutors and agents to care less on efforts to investigate foreign corruption, ...

Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison in Colorado in February 2020, 16 months after former President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois Gov. Nearly five years ...

In every election since 2016, Donald Trump has run on the promise of fighting the corruption of the Democratic Party and its ...

Once a political ally who helped launch Rod Blagojevich's career, Richard Mell became estranged from his son-in-law early in ...

And can President Trump find no one with a clean record to represent Americans as ambassadors? Crime pays, it seems, in Trump's orbit — including the Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned.