After 50 years in Illinois House, 36 years ruling it, Mike Madigan is quitting

By Brad Weisenstein

02/18/2021

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan is resigning as a state representative after 50 years in office. It came a little more than a month after he was ousted as speaker.

TAGS: bribery, ComEd, corruption, federal investigation, Mike Madigan, resignation

Full text: Mike Madigan’s resignation statement

02/18/2021

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan is resigning as a state representative after 50 years in office.

TAGS: corruption, Mike Madigan, resignation

Illinois’ U.S. Senators urge Biden to keep public corruption-fighting prosecutor

By Patrick Andriesen

02/11/2021

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and Chicago Ald. Ed Burke are among the politicians curbed by Chicago’s current U.S. Attorney. A bipartisan group is trying to keep him in place to continue public corruption prosecutions.

TAGS: corruption, Dick Durbin, Joe Biden, John Lausch, madigan, Tammy Duckworth

With Madigan out, now is the time to reform the House Rules

By Joe Tabor

02/09/2021

The House Rules allowed Madigan to accumulate unprecedented power in the Illinois speaker’s office and helped enable a culture of corruption in Springfield. With Madigan out, reformers have a shot at changing the House Rules.

TAGS: Chris Welch, corruption, house rules, Mike Madigan

How to dismantle the Illinois Machine

By Joe Tabor

01/29/2021

If Illinois House members change their rules, they can give Illinoisans more say in how their state government works.

TAGS: corruption, house rules, House Speaker, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, Mike Madigan

Madigan’s reign ends as longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history

By Austin Berg

01/13/2021

Illinoisans watched the politically impossible become the politically inevitable.

TAGS: Chris Welch, corruption, House Speaker, Illinois House of Representatives, Mike Madigan

Illinois’ mountain of debt will be Madigan’s fiscal legacy

By Adam Schuster

01/12/2021

Decades of institutionalized financial mismanagement left Illinois with the nation’s worst fiscal health. Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan has been at the center of nearly every bad decision along the way.

TAGS: corruption, credit rating, debt, Mike Madigan, pensions, taxes

Illinois was most corrupt of 10 largest states under Madigan’s reign

By Joe Tabor

01/12/2021

Illinois averaged over one federal public corruption conviction a week during the Madigan era. That is the most convictions per capita among the top 10 most populous states between 1983 and 2018.

TAGS: bribery, corruption, House Speaker, Mike Madigan

51 House Democrats back Madigan for speaker in caucus vote

By Austin Berg

01/11/2021

See who your representative backed in a historic fight for the Illinois House speakership.

TAGS: corruption, House Speaker, lame duck session, Mike Madigan

Madigan suspends campaign for House speaker

By Austin Berg

01/11/2021

The most powerful speaker in American history may finally be stepping aside amid a wide-ranging federal corruption probe.

TAGS: corruption, House Speaker, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, Mike Madigan