In recent years, as Old Town and Chinatown have borne the brunt of Portland’s overlapping crises of homelessness, drug abuse and mental illness, groups have sometimes butted heads over who gets to ...

A federal jury Wednesday convicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the most powerful person in Illinois politics, of bribery conspiracy charges in a wide-ranging case alleging he ran his ...

The decade-long FBI investigation that led to Madigan’s trial roiled local politics and changed the course of Illinois ...

The Illinois Democrat once lauded as the longest-serving legislative leader in American history has been found guilty of some ...