Madigan’s Illinois House replacement quits at Madigan’s request

By Brad Weisenstein

02/24/2021

Two days after he picked his replacement as state representative, Mike Madigan asked that replacement to resign over ‘questionable conduct.’ Edward Guerra Kodatt then quit after serving two days, entitling him to $5,789 in salary.

TAGS: Mike Madigan

Madigan quits as party chair day after picking his House successor

By Brad Weisenstein

02/22/2021

Mike Madigan quit as Democratic Party of Illinois chairman a day after picking his successor for the Illinois House, four days after resigning as representative and one month after he was ousted as the nation's longest-serving Statehouse speaker.

TAGS: Democratic Party, Edward Guerra Kodatt, House Speaker, Mike Madigan

Madigan will retire with $2.9 million public pension after contributing just $350,000

By Adam Schuster

02/19/2021

Because of a pension sweetener for politicians that Madigan helped create, the former speaker’s pension will spike more than $66,000 the year after his first full year of retirement, then grow 3% each year thereafter.

TAGS: Mike Madigan, pensions

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

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 leaves trial lawyers with parting gift: up to 2 years of 9% interest

By Brad Weisenstein

01/26/2021

Lame duck lawmakers and the outgoing Illinois House speaker are trying to hand trial lawyers some extra cash. Gov. J.B. Pritzker is being urged to veto the bill.

TAGS: House Speaker, interest rates, Mike Madigan, tort

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