Four long-time Illinois General Assembly members who pushed through the “fair tax” referendum have been charged with crimes. A fifth faces a bribery investigation.

Six House Democrats have called for the longtime speaker to step down.

Multiple officials in the southwest suburbs have been implicated on criminal charges in a federal investigation into red-light cameras.

America’s longest-serving House speaker is facing mounting pressure from within his own party over corruption implications in the federal case against ComEd.

Federal investigators are looking into Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s relationship with multiple corporations.

Multiple state lawmakers have been charged or associated with criminal conduct after passing the progressive income tax amendment on to voters.

Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s power over Illinois politics is more precarious than ever. A steady stream of federal investigations, wiretaps and raids of people close to him, a deferred prosecution agreement with Commonwealth Edison wherein the utility giant admitted to bribing the speaker, and a grand jury subpoena served to Madigan’s office have led...