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Senate Minority leader John Curran (R-Downers Grove) is calling out Democratic lawmakers in the state for allowing corruption to go unchecked in Springfield.

Attorneys for former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and ex-ComEd lobbyist John Hooker filed a motion in U.S District Court, asking for an order granting them permission to speak to the panel of seven women and five men who last week found them guilty on every count.

(Springfield-jm) – Illinois State Police say any purchase of firearms or attachments the state deems as “assault weapons” from during the six-day injunction against Illinois’ ...

(The Center Square) – The four former Commonwealth Edison executives and lobbyists convicted in a bribery scandal centered around former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are scheduled for sentencing in January 2024. ...

Sarah Goldenberg didn’t know much about former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan when she answered a federal jury summons this spring that later became a front-row seat to Illinois’ biggest political corruption case in a decade.

Jeanne Ives, a former state representative and gubernatorial candidate, is asking for a rebate from ComEd after the ComEd Four public corruption convictions.

Several reform bills have been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly, but no voting action has followed.

Photo caption: (clockwise top left) Anne Pramaggiore, Mike McClain, John Hooker and Jay Doherty

Hearings to hand down sentences for the former ComEd executives and contractors are scheduled to be held three months before the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

The defendants conduct, jurors concluded, was criminal, corrupt and inextricably tethered to the powerful demands of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.