It’s unclear what prompted the departure of Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu. The news comes in the early days of ...

The lead federal prosecutor in the corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is stepping down.

A prosecutor with a 20-year record of winning major cases will step down from his job with the U.S. attorney in Chicago, NBC ...

Federal food bank funding The Trump administration has stopped reimbursing Illinois for a program designed to help farmers ...

CHICAGO -- A federal judge on Monday granted a partial retrial on several bribery counts in the case of four former ...

A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case involving former House Speaker Michael ...

Michael Madigan, the real estate attorney who spent 50 years in the Illinois House of Representatives, was convicted on 10 ...

Shortly after former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s conviction on federal corruption charges, the leaders of Chicago’s top federal investigative agencies appeared in the lobby of the Dirksen U.S.

Standing trial alongside Madigan was longtime confidant Michael McClain, who prosecutors called Madigan’s “mouthpiece.” Jurors deadlocked on all of the counts McClain faced. McClain, a onetime state ...

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah left intact the conspiracy conviction and other counts against the four defendants, convicted ...

The search for Chicago's next U.S. attorney comes amid a widespread shakeup in the Justice Department under President Trump.