Out of all the electronics, emails, and other documents seized by the FBI in a raid on the downstate Quincy home of Michael McClain in May 2019, one item stood out. Inside a tote bag in McClain’s silver Toyota Avalon were handwritten notes scrawled on stationery from a Chicago boutique hotel,

A federal judge told a Chicago jury Monday that the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan could continue through mid-January. The trial was initially expected to wrap up before the end of the year,

Inside a tote bag in McClain’s silver Toyota Avalon were handwritten notes scrawled on stationery from a Chicago boutique hotel, listing the names of allies of then-House Speaker Michael Madigan who’d gone on to lucrative lobbying careers. Among the ...